Sign up now: live launch updates on your phone

Before Sunday's launch of the space shuttle Discovery, make sure you've signed up to get text message alerts sent to your cell phone or handheld device.

For every launch, our space team sends text message updates during the countdown. The fastest and best way to keep up with the launch (if you're not near your computer) is by signing up now for the space alerts at floridatoday.com/text.

Go there now and sign up.

And, of course, we'll have live updates throughout the day and evening here in The Flame Trench, including a live broadcast from 4 p.m. through liftoff.