Are they trying tonight?

What is the weather this time? hear it looks like al launch would be
around six o clock in the morning tomorrow.
Brian

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"Brian Gaff" wrote in news:97Ukm.71899$OO7.9750
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What is the weather this time? hear it looks like al launch would be
around six o clock in the morning tomorrow.
Brian


Scrubbed again; possible retry in 48 hours. A LH2 drain valve
was thought to have possibly stuck closed, and not being able
to drain the main fuel tank is Not A Good Scenario. And there
was a possible small hydrogen leak in the orbiter tail or
service mast, and they want to check that as well.

--Damon

Oh well, situation normal then.

The press briefings are in the middle of sleep time here of course.

Brian

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"Damon Hill" wrote in message
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in news:97Ukm.71899$OO7.9750
@text.news.virginmedia.com:

What is the weather this time? hear it looks like al launch would be
around six o clock in the morning tomorrow.
Brian


Scrubbed again; possible retry in 48 hours. A LH2 drain valve
was thought to have possibly stuck closed, and not being able
to drain the main fuel tank is Not A Good Scenario. And there
was a possible small hydrogen leak in the orbiter tail or
service mast, and they want to check that as well.

--Damon

On Aug 25, 9:09*pm, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
Oh well, situation normal then.

The press briefings are in the middle of sleep time here of course.


But the RSS never sleeps ;-}

From the shuttle mission page over at some .gov site belonging to some
sort of agency that is involved::

quote
As Valve Analysis Moves On, Launch Team Resets
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:12:00 PM PDT

The mission management team opted to give engineers more time to
refine their analysis of a fill-and-drain valve inside Discovery
rather than push quickly into a new launch cycle, NASA pre-launch
mission management team chairman Mike Moses said."We gave the team a
day to go and keep working on it," he said.

The decision moved Discovery's liftoff to Friday at 11:59 p.m. EDT to
begin the STS-128 mission to the International Space Station.

Engineers are comfortable that the 8-inch diameter valve will work
just fine, but the extra time will be used to polish that conclusion
and determine a series of possible steps in case another trouble comes
up during a future countdown.

STS-128 Launch Director Pete Nickolenko said preparations are already
moving ahead toward Friday night's launch, including moving the
rotating service structure around Discovery so technicians can replace
the Tyvek covers protecting the nose thrusters of the shuttle.

"In essence, we're ready to go," Nickolenko said.
/quote