NASA confirms: shuttle in mid-May at best

They also totaly grounded their own copy of the shuttle and the way they do
their launchings has cost a lot of failed flights too. The rocket is NOT
loaded or sitting on the pad, the men have to get into it while it's still
on a railway car, then it's rased up BUT if there is bad weather it is NOT
taken out of the storage building, bad weather has been the reson lanuchs
there have not bee don on a day. And their photon rocket which is their
biggest rocket is not man oked, it's blow itself up at lest two times on the
pad making them have to rebuild the pad for 5 months.

and this is not being cross posted either.

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"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
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"Danny Deger" wrote:

The trick is to design and build a spaceship that is very tolerant to bad
weather. The shuttle is not. It sits on the pad for way too long, needs
excellent weather to launch, and needs excellent weather to land. As of
1993 the Russians had never cancelled a Soyuz launch or landing due to
weather and it sits on the pad for a very short period of time.

Yes - comparing fish to bicycle is *so* useful.

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