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Space Forum / Shuttle / March 2009Scrubbed!
Looks like the launch has halted due to a fuel leak http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3033063 Nothing further on MSN or BBC.... Quick, get out there with some sealant and a jubilee clip! Brian  SignatureBrian Gaff - briang1@blueyonder.co.uk Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff' in the display name may be lost. Blind user, so no pictures please! > Looks like the launch has halted due to a fuel leak > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3033063 > > Nothing further on MSN or BBC.... > Quick, get out there with some sealant and a jubilee clip! > Brian [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > - Show quoted text - they could of lost the vehicle, crew and pad. that was a serious problem I don't think the levels got anywhere near the flammable mixture myself, at least if what was said is true. Brian SignatureBrian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: briang1@blueyonder.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On Mar 11, 6:21?pm, "Brian Gaff" <bria...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Quick, get out there with some sealant and a jubilee clip! > Brian [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > - Show quoted text - they could of lost the vehicle, crew and pad. that was a serious problem > I don't think the levels got anywhere near the flammable mixture �myself, at > least if what was said is true. > Brian they would have during launch.......... > > I don't think the levels got anywhere near the flammable mixture myself, at > > least if what was said is true. > > Brian > > they would have during launch.......... No they wouldn't Everything you post has to be "sky is falling" Go away Chicken Little On Mar 12, 12:06�pm, charliexmur...@yahoo.com wrote: > > > I don't think the levels got anywhere near the flammable mixture myself, at > > > least if what was said is true. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Go away Chicken Little no doubt you thought that before columbias disaster when i asked what would happen if a shuttle got stuck at station....... nasa had no plans for such a event, which in retrospect was very possible incidently theres a pyro by the leak area, that would of really caused bad things > I don't think the levels got anywhere near the flammable mixture myself, at > least if what was said is true. According to NASA's web site, the problem was on an arm that attaches to the ET from the fixed structure (launch tower). It provides a path to vent excess hydrogen away from shuttle. http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/180842main_119-pad-720-2.jpg ( I realise Brian Gaff can't view images ). Nasa says this arm is in the intertank area of the ET (so roughly 2/3 of the way up). I take it we never see this arm because it is hidden by the passenger bridge from the tower to the shuttle ? Does it swing back at the same time as the passenger bridge ? >> I don't think the levels got anywhere near the flammable mixture >> myself, at least if what was said is true. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > bridge from the tower to the shuttle ? Does it swing back at the same > time as the passenger bridge ? Yes. Apparently it's helped on it's way by a small pyrotechnic charge, which is presumably why a leak at that point isn't a great idea. SignatureFalcon: fide, sed cui vide. (L) |
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