Space Forum / Shuttle / July 2005

...And it wasn't weather, either. Seems it's a problem with an LH2
flow sensor, and the Launch Director is erring on the side of caution.
                OM

Per the Press Conf. I'm watching, no earlier than 7/16/05.
Actual Time wasn't announced at this time.
George

From spaceflightnow.com.
"It was not clear what caused today's problem, but the sensor system has
encountered unusual trouble in recent weeks, possibly due to suspect
transisters in an electronics "black box" in Discovery's aft compartment.

What a load of sh.ts with a far right wing nuthole agenda!
Hey =
wingnut = new liberal shortspeak for 'right wing nut case' - see also:
BuShits and LameAssedCheneyBrains (LACB's)..

"Take Your Daughter to Work Day" is a fine and worthy concept, but is
shuttle Return-to-Flight the appropriate day for KSC PAO to put it into
effect?
I'm sure she is a delightful person, and undoubtedly has risen up through

Well since Jim Oberg asked that mistakes on NBC brought to his
attention I figured I'd take him up on it.
In the MSNBC special Jay Barbaree talked about the tiles on the OMS
pods and compared them with the "tiles" which doomed Columbia. Last

In the last hour or so, in a burst of irony, spaceflight.nasa.gov finally
released a news update on their "official" news section - it's the first one
for 7/13 (today) and it's the Administrator's Launch Day Message.  Very
inspiring, very ironic.

The shot CNN just showed of the astro van traveling down the
crawlerway showed one of the crawlers parked at the old LUT parking
pad.  Is this a normal position when a Shuttle is on the pad?  Special
for -114?  Pre-positioning for a possible hurricane rollback?

Launch director just announced a scrub... a problem with low-level hydrogen
sensors...

When they scrub a launch, what happens to the fuel and oxidizer that's
loaded into the vehicle?  I assume it's drained, but then what?  Is it
just put back into storage tanks to re-use the next time, or is it
considered contaminated and they start with fresh fuel each time (and

Just turned on one of the news channels and the female reporter noted that
most of the astronauts had their normal pre-launch breakfast but that Eileen
Collins only had toast and something to drink.  She was dispatching her
investigators to determine the significance of this ...

At Edwards AFB on July 4, 1982, after the fourth space shuttle landing,
President Reagan declared the shuttle "operational." Despite twenty
more successful missions, Challenger caused many people (even at NASA)
to question Reagan's declaration. They proposed "design flaws" in

I was just watching the NASA channel and saw a bird fly by and take a
sh.t on the space shuttle, how will this affect the launch? Is it too
dangerous to launch and does it warrant inspection?

Jim Oberg advises his news media clients:
13. NOTE -- there is another set of covers on the front of the Orbiter,
about two dozen
paper covers over the maneuvering jet nozzles (to prevent water getting into

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