Posted on 10/11/2021 8:50:33 AM PDT by mylife
William Shatner's much-anticipated trip to the edge of space will have to wait a day because high winds in west Texas prompted spaceflight company Blue Origin to postpone the voyage.
Originally scheduled for Tuesday, the launch from the spaceport in Van Horn, Texas, will now take place at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Blue Origin said in a statement Sunday.
"As part of today's Flight Readiness Review, the mission operations team confirmed the vehicle has met all mission requirements and astronauts began their training today," Blue Origin said. "Weather is the only gating factor for the launch window."
The National Weather Service predicted strong winds for the mountains north of Van Horn through Tuesday, and a hazardous weather outlook was in effect for the region Sunday as gusts were expected to reach nearly 75 mph.
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If he goes, his age will break the record of that famous Clinton-covering quid pro quo piece of space luggage, the former astronaut/monkey replacement from Ohio.
Well, once he finally goes, he’ll be even older.
beam me up scotty...
And "training" for tourists should not be months. Might be fun but heck, they will be tourists, not crew!
For disclosure
I like Musk
I am overall fond of Bransonâs èlan
Not a fan of Bezos
Tejano weirdo
I do not trust Bezos either, but you know DAMNED well he (Bezos) wants everything to go well. He does NOT want to be known for time immemorial as “the man that killed Captain Kirk”.
As for The Shat, I find it somehow apropos that Capt. James T. Kirk, the man who could travel the stars at warp speed powered only by his considerable libido, is going into space aboard a spacecraft that looks, for all intents and purposes, like a giant rocket-powered dildo with fins.
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