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Another Delay For The Space Shuttle

Launch has been scrubbed because of faulty fuel tank sensor.

No new date has been set.
 
Shuttle is showing its true colors once again, a complex monstrosity that never launches when it should. Whats new? Not this thing from the 70s thats for sure. I like this concept from tSpace :) safe,cheap and easy way to low orbit or ISS. Plus such a simple concept you could send up people every other week, not every other year. We can do better and do it safer and at less cost.
 

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No alternate launch dates suggested yet either... I think I read that they could launch tomorrow still, otherwise it would have to wait till next week?
 
mactastic said:
No alternate launch dates suggested yet either... I think I read that they could launch tomorrow still, otherwise it would have to wait till next week?
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The guy on NBC said that they have a 10 minute window everyday to meet up with the ISS, they can launch tomorrow or Saturday or next week up until the end of July, then they would have to wait till September.
 
You know, with all of the problems they've run into over the last few days leading up to this, I had a weird feeling about their attempting a launch today. I'm glad it's been postponed, at least until tomorrow.
 
It's very sad new, but safety come first. It's better to be safe than sorry. This has happened all through the space program with delays due to a technical glitch. As usual it is very frustrating.
 
Crap. I thought for sure this time it would get off. As much as I am a fan of the space program for the most part, the Shuttle has really been bungled to the point of humiliation.
 
Well, now it looks like Saturday....

Which is good for me, so I might be able to drive down there on Friday, see the launch and drive home :D

I hope I don't go down there and have it delayed again...

D
 
Nothing like a good 14 hour drive on a Friday night. Bring the No-Doze!
 
Mr. Anderson said:
Well, now it looks like Saturday....

Which is good for me, so I might be able to drive down there on Friday, see the launch and drive home :D

I hope I don't go down there and have it delayed again...

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Anyone who would drive across country expecting to see the shuttle take off on time has to be a optomist :D Though i wish you could see a flight the shuttle has so many things that can go wrong and does i would hate to see you drive across country for another delay. I cant help myself but i mmm -must say it again. Shuttle is a Pork Barrel Pig costing us the Tax payer a lot more then it was promised.
 
I wouldn't get your hopes up just yet...
"If we were to get extremely lucky ... we could launch on Sunday," deputy shuttle program manager Wayne Hale said. "This represents a really optimistic, good-luck scenario which is not likely credible."
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Just amazing that Nasa has let this pig suck up all its funds and has no easy way to low earth orbit, I guess why doit for millions when you can do it for billions?. This is our Government showing its beuracratic colors. After years of watching this thing its status quo for shuttle luanches. Lets just hope the pig doesnt blow up and kill its 3rd crew.
 
You can't really blame the Challenger accident on the shuttle, that was more of a human error that they didn't check the O rings and the fact that they lifted off when it was too cold.
 
Hasn't it been said that they are scrapping the shuttle program in the next 4 - 5 years? what's going to happen then? start again... they can't possibly completely scrap the shuttles I mean China and India are starting to get their programs online....

I hope they are not stopping any launches in the future under NASA ??
 
And yet another delay. the complex and very costly shuttle is again telling Nasa this baby is ready for retirement. We should let private companies get us to space and not rely on Congress to do it for 1,000 times the cost. This is the big problem. We need a reliable way to space. At the moment we have nothing but a low orbit special interest pork barel pig that has killed. We were going low orbit in the 60s.......and the moon..... now the year 2005 and we cant even do that.
 
I was wondering the same thing about Mr. Anderson myself this morning. Saw the crowd and wondered if he might be one of them.

I watched the launch Discovery live this morning live via ABC. An anxious and tense time. We are now finally back in space. The new cameras aboard the shuttle gave an awesome view, such as seeing the separation of the external tank. God speed Discovery.
 
That was very cool. I watched the launch over the net!! NASA had a stream going. Now that impressed me! I love technology. :D
 
I love the external tank cam, watching the tank separate for the first time was a cool sight.
 
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