SPACEFLIGHTNOW.COM
Posted on 08/27/2022 7:41:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA's first female launch director, called her team to their stations in Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center and began the carefully-scripted 46-hour, 10-minute countdown at 10:23 a.m. EDT.
Shortly after the briefing, lightning struck two of the three 600-foot-tall protective towers around the SLS rocket at launch pad 39B. The strike prompted a review of data to make sure no sensitive electrical systems were affected, but initial checks indicated the strikes were "low magnitude."
SPACEFLIGHTNOW.COM
One question mark going into the countdown is the status of a 4-inch liquid hydrogen quick-disconnect fitting that leaked during a practice countdown and fueling test June 20.
The fitting was repaired after the rocket was hauled back to NASA's assembly building. But hydrogen leaks typically don't show up unless the equipment is exposed to cryogenic temperatures — in this case, minus 423 degrees Fahrenheit — and that won't happen until fueling is underway Monday morning.
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“...NASA’s first female launch director...”
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As usual, whenever I see something like this,
I wonder who is keeping the record book.
So, she is driving the rocket?
No she is on the ground telling them to stop and ask for directions.
Bookmark
They got this big rocket and all they’re launching into space is three dummies?
I hope it’s Elizabeth Warren and Schumer and Pelosi.
NASA’s Most Powerful Rocket in Final Testing Before Launch
(The most powerful rocket ever built, even bigger than the Saturn V)
Who wants to bet this bunch of EOE wokeflakes who replaced the Right Stuff pocket-protected crew cut chain smokers will screw the pooch how?
1.Upon launch (boom)
2.In transit for totally trusting programs, or
3.Somehow worse than imagining.
Like the Department of Indoctrination, it’s time to let this go to private enterprise. Now let’s get cracking on my equatorial nanotech space elevator so we can stop this astronaut obliterating altogether.
Spacex's Starship Super Heavy is a MEGAZILLAROCKET (400 ft tall)
SLS launch set for Monday at 8:30am (PST)
Starship launch SHOULD be happening in a month or two, HOPEFULLY!
Whenever an article goes out of its way to identify race and gender of someone for no reason other than to brag about the non maleness and non whiteness that’s how I know it’s a garbage article. Kamala Harris is what you get when you tote melanin and genitals as an accomplishment in and of itself.
We might as well take the 40-70 billion dollars that are being spent on traveling to a barren moon and use it on our own deserts...
We might get some kind of return from that...
“....use it on our own deserts.”
What? Resort hotels with free food, lodging, and education for illegal immigrants?
It SHOULD be them, that rocket’s gonna go out fat enough.
This launch could say a lot about our future as to wether we still have the right stuff. Frankly, I doubt nasa still does.
I do wish it success, just can’t see it happening after NASA traded merit and competence for diversity and “equity” in the field of endeavor most requiring absolute fact and perfection.
NASA has the right stuff. And you, me and every other taxpayer supplies it. I was a design engineering lead for a couple of the early years a decade ago on this program as a subcontractor, and it was a Sh-show compared to ISS, where I was a design engineer starting in 1989. I have no doubt this launch will succeed, as long as I can trust my sources still working the program. I wish I could say it was worth the price or that cost was ethically considered.
The NappyOne
I wonder who is keeping the record book.
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This is a woke record book territory with not only the first female(?) launch director, but will the first manned flight will include the first female(?) and the first “person of color” astronauts. The only question is: which one is transgender or openly gay?
The Spacex’s Starship Super Heavy looks like it came out of a 1950s sci-fi movie. I like it.
It will work fine because it was designed and built by top-notch contractors.
NASA contracts ALL of the work out to the usual aerospace companies. It will work just fine.
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