Posted: 7/13/2005 9:35:33 AM EDT
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I know a lot of y'all follow the space program. Low Level Fuel sensor problem caused the head-cheese to call it off. Scott |
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I edited mine. They don't go in order. That's what I thought too, but upon double checking... Look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_shuttle_missions#List_of_shuttle_flights |
The fox guy said this would be 114th launch. It seems like he is making 1/2 of this up. BTW, this is a cool pic: 
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Yeah, it is the 114th, but it's coincidence that it's also "STS-114." That's all I was tryin to say. |
The USA's Space Program used to be 'cutting edge' everything was the best and no compromise… too many 'bean counters' involved now. Most of the problems and accidents come down to short sighted penny pinching cost cutting that ended up costing more in the end. ANdy |
And also monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide 
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How do you figure that? How is Brittan's space program? |
And Slick 50. Heard so on the radio. Gets 200MPG from some secret carburetor that the government has suppressed. But seriously, anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that this "fuel gage problem" might be a latent Y2K issue?  |
Johnson Space Center is an awesome place! |
I'd agree, and I'd also like to point out NASA's budget isn't what it used to be when it was 'cutting edge'. |
got anything insightful to contribute or just the usual redkneck comment? oh and by the way It's spelled B R I T A I N. And BTW… your Space Program was run and designed and a man put on the moon by G E R M A N S. |
I guess it's better than having to get out and push half way through the mission. Triple A doesn't cover high earth orbit and beyond. I doubt they could handle monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide, anyway. Will that fit in a regular 5 gallon gas can? |
It's great. And then they have Space Center Houston next door. Lots of influence on the area schools......Needless to say most of them are National/State Exemplary Schools. |
+1. The same Germans that developed the V-2 rockets that caused havoc on your country in WWII. We snatched them up before the Russians could.
You used to not be able to go by that. The last shuttle mission (Columbia that burned up on re-entery) was STS-107. I guess they skipped some numbers to bring up in line with the total |
Hell yes it will fit! Get good ones though, not that Walmart crap. CTD has surplus Israeli cans for $20 I just saved NA$A 50% 
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I call  on this one. You see inside every German is an American trying to get out....and seeing how these were newly acquired Americans.......it was Americans that put Americans in space (with German influence).Wasn't long before the Haterade drinkers would creep out. |
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WHat is scary is that every single launch is plagued by some kind of malfunction. They need to dumb these things down. And go with an unmanned cheap space program that gradually builds itself up to the complexity of the space shuttles today. THat way they can handle building these things. |
The fuel sensors are built, when ordered, by a Chinese company and they cost $7,231.00 each so they don't keep any spares laying around. You didn't really think they were going to launch it did you? Yahoo! had a video on the helpers getting the crew members buckled into their Parachutes and then putting them into their seats. It was pretty informative but the idea of 'bailing' out of the Shuttle on Re-entry, or any other time for that matter, just doesn't seem like something that I would want to do!  BigDozer66 |
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Fox is reporting that the next possible launch will be on Monday according to their sources. They are off-loading the main fuel tanks now. Two of the four redundant fuel sensors are malfunctioning. They are probably being overly cautious at this point. ETA: After watching the NASA new conf. all four redundant sensors are req. at liftoff or the mission has always been scrubbed. |
So what is wrong with Germans? (Of course I wasn't in England in the 1940's.) You still have not backed up your money comments. 
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Now that is a recipe for pure disaster. It will only take one disastrous orbital or suborbital flight with passengers flying in one of his designs (and it will probably be the first passengered flight of his design that will end in disaster) and that will kill commercial spaceflight. |
Oh BS! We have airplanes crash (and have since the first days) and people still want to fly. Most people who want to go to space would continue to do so anyway. They know the risks - just as the Astronaughts know the risk. We've had 2 shuttle disasters (one on launch and one on reentry) and still NASA turns away thousands of applicants for Astronaughts every year. |
That's fine for people who want to fly...it is Rutan's recklessness that I am talking about. Their little SS1 damn near did not survive their suborbital flights. |
It's a sad day in this country when bold men pushing the limits of technology are called reckless. What a nation of pussies we have become. |
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Rutan pushes the limits of safety and common sense. Notice how his engineers are usually those who cannot acquire clearances (they go to LM Aero, Northrop Grumman and Boeing) Sure, he is creative, but all else goes out the window. Coupled with the lowest paid composite workers in the Antelope Valley, and acft designs without safety in mind. There was a reason he sold his company off one time before, when he had 150+ lawsuits against him. *sigh* You'd have to be fairly intimate with this industry to understand where we are coming from, in regards to Rutan's recklessness. |
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Hehe.. an audio clip from the Bill Dana show from the 1960s. jose |
I repeat; THEY ARE NOT IN ORDER... 
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600 grand (according to this 2000 piece on a scrub for Discovery)
www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/missions/sts-092/stories/20001010c.html |