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Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad... Shuttle launch countdown begins
Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope
this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident free. Shuttle launch countdown begins The US space agency has begun a three-day countdown to the launch of its next space shuttle mission. At 2200 BST (1700 EDT) on Wednesday, launch team members at Kennedy Space Center in Florida set the clock running ahead of Saturday's planned lift-off. The shuttle Discovery is set to visit the International Space Station on a 12-day mission to deliver supplies and equipment and test safety improvements. But Nasa says there is a strong chance of weather delaying the launch. Thunderstorms and anvil clouds bring the threat of lightning strikes, the agency said, estimating the chance of postponement at about 60%. 'Excellent shape' During a countdown status briefing at Kennedy, NASA test director Jeff Spaulding announced: "Discovery is in excellent shape, and we're tracking no issues in our preparation at this point. "Our teams have been working tirelessly during this last year to help make this flight and all shuttle flights as safe as possible for the crews." In the run-up to launch, some final "tireless work" for the five-man, two-woman crew of Discovery will involve training for the descent phase, Florida Today newspaper reports. Mission commander Steve Lindsey and pilot Mark Kelly will practice landing in a Gulfstream aircraft modified to mimic the shuttle's steep trajectory during final approach. Fellow astronauts Mike Fossum, Stephanie Wilson and Piers Sellers will be at the pad, training to take pictures of the shuttle's re-designed external fuel tank once it is jettisoned from the orbiter nine minutes into flight. It is only the second shuttle launch since Columbia broke up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere in 2003. A suitcase-sized foam chunk broke away from the external tank on lift-off and punched a hole in Columbia's wing. This allowed super-heated gases into the wing during descent towards Earth on 1 February 2003, tearing the craft apart. Foam was also shed during the first post-Columbia launch in July 2005. This forced Nasa managers to ground the fleet while further modifications were made to the tank. Completion aim At a Flight Readiness Review on 17 June, Nasa managers were split on whether the problem was fixed. The agency's chief engineer Christopher Scolese and its top safety officer Bryan O'Connor each cast a negative vote for Discovery's lift-off on 1 July. Their concerns centred on the risk of losing the orbiter, but not its astronaut crew. The option of using the International Space Station (ISS) as a lifeboat if the shuttle was damaged provides this mission with additional security, Scolese has said. On this mission, a new crew member, the European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter, will be dropped off at the station for a six-month-long stay. If the flight is successful, Nasa plans another 16 missions to to finish construction of the half-built ISS, and - potentially - one last servicing call to the Hubble Space Telescope before the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010. Nasa's launch team is conducting the countdown from the newly renovated Firing Room Four of Kennedy's Launch Control Center. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5126156.stm America's SHUTTLE & The International Space Station The American Space Shuttles, which face a firm 2010 retirement date, are the only vehicles that can finish assembly of the half-built International Space Station (ISS) |
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Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad... Shuttle launch countdown begins
Warhol wrote: Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident free. Shuttle launch countdown begins Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes. Superglue holding on the loose tiles. Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place. Yup! Call in Shorty Powers for the count down! Double-A |
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Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad... Shuttle launch countdown begins
Double-A wrote: Warhol wrote: Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident free. Shuttle launch countdown begins Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes. Superglue holding on the loose tiles. Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place. Yup! Call in Shorty Powers for the count down! Double-A Good. Then how do you keep it manned until the new US orbital fairycraft is up and operational? And then theres the small matter, of food, water, air, etc etc???????????? Looks like NASA will be giving Russian languge lessons, for at least 10 more years. Of course, the American Government will extend the new vehicles development curve to at least 10 years, because of other budgetary demands, like 2.5 billion usd per month for Iraq alone. Leaving NASA no choice but to look to Russia, or maybe even China, to get astronauts back and forth to ISS. Is this due simple lack of leadership??? Lets do hope all goes well Saturday. If there is another shuttle lost in flight, its over. Are NASA High Priest are too stupid to implement niavigation and autopilot sustem to permit for the US S Shuttle to be used in autonomous mode the way Buran did. Then the US S Shuttle could still be used to deliver stuff with less risk for humans (expect during the docking procedures with the ISS, the astronuts probably will screw as usual) But than the US S Shuttle will be outed from the NASA manned flight pork barel which eats 4 billion from the NASA budget which is already too slim curtessy, since I heard somewhere US Goverment went broke in Iraq... |
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Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad... Shuttlelaunch countdown begins
nightbat wrote
Double-A wrote: Warhol wrote: Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident free. Shuttle launch countdown begins Commander Double-A Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes. Superglue holding on the loose tiles. Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place. Yup! Call in Shorty Powers for the count down! Double-A nightbat Yes Commander, and load all the coffee boys in Discovery shuttle bay for their greatest adventure, ok give them oxygen packs and rubber duckies for the ride and tell them we'll all miss them not. ponder on, the nightbat |
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Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad...Shu...
Double-A and nightbat. The great Hubble telescope just went blind Now
we can't let those astronauts on the ISS go hungry. This begs the question What if we never built the ISS,and retired the shuttles 10 years ago? We could have used this saving of money and lives to have built a more advanced Hubble,and put it in orbit with a large dependable rocket. The Hubble has shown us the universe. The Mafia shuttles going around the Earth 300 miles up have shown us nothing but how short sighted politicians can get when they are counting all those billions and billions stolen from the shuttle program. The Mafia keeps the shuttles going because it brings in the bucks. Evolving the shuttles to be safer over the last 40 years costs money. NASA motto is "Life is cheap but a buck is still a buck" Bert |
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nightbat wrote
G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote: Double-A and nightbat. The great Hubble telescope just went blind Now we can't let those astronauts on the ISS go hungry. This begs the question What if we never built the ISS,and retired the shuttles 10 years ago? We could have used this saving of money and lives to have built a more advanced Hubble,and put it in orbit with a large dependable rocket. The Hubble has shown us the universe. The Mafia shuttles going around the Earth 300 miles up have shown us nothing but how short sighted politicians can get when they are counting all those billions and billions stolen from the shuttle program. The Mafia keeps the shuttles going because it brings in the bucks. Evolving the shuttles to be safer over the last 40 years costs money. NASA motto is "Life is cheap but a buck is still a buck" Bert nightbat The profound Earth Science Team Officers for years Team warned like the retired Nasa space engineers of the flaws in the shuttles glue and tile configuration and advocated upgraded models with escape designs like Dr. Von Braun's for the manned space program vehicles. The present shuttles could Officer Bert be computer launched including safer powerful rocket launched nose cone manned vehicles to tie up in space mission later. Once the routine unmanned shuttle was placed in space the astronauts could occupy and operate the shuttles with relative safety until they were Earth computer returned additionally with separate astronaut mission specialists personnel rocket B bottom compact designs or emergency parachute capsule return options. ponder on, the nightbat |
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Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad...Shu...
nightbat All you posted is good engineering sense. Reality is the
shuttle engineers were picked by the Ca, Mafia. to build the Rube Goldberg shuttles. The shuttles are money making machines,and for that they did their job very well.NASA's Mafia are above all the laws of the land. Best to remember 21 of their best engineers said the Columbia was unsafe to fly. It exploded. They lost their jobs in telling the citizens of NASA corruption. Most of these engineers are dead by now,but I will post for them while I'[m alive. They are yelling in their graves. "Don't fly the Discovery" it is not safe to fly. Bert |
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Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad... Shuttle launch countdown begins
Double-A wrote:
Warhol wrote: Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident free. Shuttle launch countdown begins Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes. Superglue holding on the loose tiles. Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place. Yup! Call in Shorty Powers for the count down! Double-A Fortunately NASA doesn't have to pay any attention to the clueless usenet yappings of a bunch of Star Trek pajama-clad saucerheads. -- COOSN-266-06-39716 Official Associate AFA-B Vote Rustler Official Overseer of Kooks and Saucerheads in alt.astronomy Co-Winner, alt.(f)lame Worst Flame War, December 2005 Official "Usenet psychopath and born-again LLPOF minion", as designated by Brad Guth "And without accurate measuring techniques, how can they even *call* quantum theory a "scientific" one? How can it possibly be referred to as a "fundamental branch of physics"?" -- Painsnuh the Lamer "Well, orientals moved to the U.S. and did amazingly well on their own, and the races are related (brown)." -- "Honest" John pontificates on racial purity "Significant new ideas have rarely come from the ranks of the establishment." -- Double-A on technology development |
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Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad... Shuttle launch countdown begins
nightbat wrote:
nightbat wrote Double-A wrote: Warhol wrote: Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident free. Shuttle launch countdown begins Commander Double-A Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes. Superglue holding on the loose tiles. Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place. Yup! Call in Shorty Powers for the count down! Double-A nightbat Yes Commander, and load all the coffee boys in Discovery shuttle bay for their greatest adventure, ok give them oxygen packs and rubber duckies for the ride and tell them we'll all miss them not. GO FROOTBAT GO!! ponder on, the nightbat -- COOSN-266-06-39716 Official Associate AFA-B Vote Rustler Official Overseer of Kooks and Saucerheads in alt.astronomy Co-Winner, alt.(f)lame Worst Flame War, December 2005 Official "Usenet psychopath and born-again LLPOF minion", as designated by Brad Guth "And without accurate measuring techniques, how can they even *call* quantum theory a "scientific" one? How can it possibly be referred to as a "fundamental branch of physics"?" -- Painsnuh the Lamer "Well, orientals moved to the U.S. and did amazingly well on their own, and the races are related (brown)." -- "Honest" John pontificates on racial purity "Significant new ideas have rarely come from the ranks of the establishment." -- Double-A on technology development |
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Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad... Shuttlelaunch countdown begins
nightbat wrote
Art Deco wrote: Double-A wrote: Warhol wrote: Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident free. Shuttle launch countdown begins Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes. Superglue holding on the loose tiles. Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place. Yup! Call in Shorty Powers for the count down! Double-A Bart Devo Fortunately NASA doesn't have to pay any attention to the clueless usenet yappings of a bunch of Star Trek pajama-clad saucerheads. nightbat Wrong premise coffee boy Devo because profound net astronomy Earth Science Team Officers took the heat about the shuttles long before we lost those brave crew members and Nasa finally decided to finally refurbish the worn out tiles and falling foam issues. get us some more fresh coffee, the nightbat |
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