Re: Shuttle launch delayed to Thursday


"Bob Me." <spam.and.eggs.bob58me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Keane" <keane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 12 Mar 2009 05:32:56 GMT, Patty Winter <patty1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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In article <nje-1BFFFE.19472311032009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
NJE <nje@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Which has now slipped to Sunday evening at 7:43. That is assuming there
are no surprises when they finish draining the external tank and are
able to examine the problem area.

Thanks, Nick. Do I recall correctly that if they don't launch in
the first two days after fueling, they have to remove all the fuel
and wait another three days? That would jibe with a Sunday launch
now that they can't launch on Thursday.


Patty

Well, so long as there are disappointed people, I can relate.

I was there a couple of Decembers ago. A night shuttle
was going to go off, so we specifically made plans to go
down to the cape. There was a 50% chance it would take
off. I got a *great* spot on 528 on the Banana River, and
at T-5min, the absolute last second before they can scrub
a mission, they scrubbed the mission.

The next night was a 30% chance, but I was leaving Florida
the next day, so decided against going. I got to see the shuttle
take off from my room at the Royal Pacific Resort.

Talk about being bummed...

Keane


Ok, so here's my disappointing space shuttle launch story.

Made a trip from WDW to the cape for a daytime launch.

So we got a great spot too (can't quite remember where but we're south of
the pad I think). Anyways we're watching, got the video camera running.
Someone nearby has a radio on so we can all hear the countdown. At like
t-10 we see the engines kick on and the exhaust starts to billow. Soon the
shuttle is no longer visable with all the smoke. Then it kinda dawns on us
that something should have happened by now. So we're kinda confused,
either waiting for the shuttle to appear above the smoke or a big ass
kaboom. Well there was neither as it turns out. Found out later that the
engines shut down at like t-3 due to some sensor fault. Closest I ever got
to seeing one launch.


We were nearly that close with STS58 in Oct 1993. I thought I remembered
getting within 10 seconds, but the NASA history says it was T-31 seconds.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-58/mission-sts-58.html

Been there, didn't see that, bought the T-shirt.

tom


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