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This will be the first shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia accident when all seven astronauts aboard were killed.
The main aim of Discovery's flight is to check that post-Columbia safety upgrades, including modifications to the external fuel tank, are successful.
Originally posted by Valhall
R. What I'm understanding is they are planning to launch with the test of the sensors being part of the pre-launch sequence. If the sensors fail the test, the launch will not occur.
Originally posted by djohnsto77
It should be noted that your time is (I guess) Britain time, the actual time of launch is 10:39 a.m EDT (the timezone of Cape Canaveral).
[edit on 7/25/2005 by djohnsto77]
Originally posted by muzzleflash
thats pretty unfair mizar!
my opinion on space shuttle
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it was great for its time; but its 2005 and its time is over
we need to put something like the VentureStar into production and get the show on the road
we have dozens of spaceship prototypes; and i believe they should be our focus
getting the old shuttles back into space is stupid really
they are old old old....obsolete
we should be wiser, and spend our resources on new high tech developments
i dont like the idea of risking another shuttle flight
we really need to back down from this and go invest in advanced projects like "VentureStar" which was canceled already but still
the fruits of R&D would create an amazing shuttle
and if we invested all our NASA $$$ towards that end; we would have a new shuttle up and running within 3 to 4 years
thats my opinion
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With the countdown entering its final hours and a fuel gauge problem still unexplained, NASA said it is prepared to bend its long-standing safety rules to launch the shuttle Tuesday on the first flight since Columbia's doomed mission 2 1/2 years ago.
Originally posted by Valhall
R. What I'm understanding is they are planning to launch with the test of the sensors being part of the pre-launch sequence. If the sensors fail the test, the launch will not occur.
Originally posted by St Udio
don't you see the diversionary tactics
attention & focus directed on a revamped spaceshuttle
-as we are lead- away from concerns like private property seizure,
Iraq, terrorism, London, shoot-to-kill suspects, a potential fundamentalist-right-wing supreme court, PatriotAct extension.....etc etc
bread & circus routine....
Originally posted by djohnsto77
Apparently the sensors passed the tests and all systems are go!
Originally posted by Zion Mainframe
The shuttle, or any space program since the Apollo missions, can't be compared to "bread & circus" as you put it, imho...