On September 10, 2008 the Large Hadron Collider will fire its first beam at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Live satellite broadcasts and webcasts from the CERN Control Centre will be available on the CERN website as CERN scientists attempt to circulate a beam of particles around the collider. In the U.S., scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago will be hosting a pajama party for visitors and the media as they participate in the experiment via videoconference. Short movies will be shown explaining the four planned experiments, LHCb, CMS, ALICE and ATLAS, which will each be managed and webcast from four separate control rooms. The LHC is expected to produce 15 million gigabytes of data every year and will be analyzed with the LHC global computing grid, which will be officially launched October 3 at the LHC Grid Fest.