Image above: STS-114 Mission Specialists Charlie Camarda (left) and Steve Robinson (right) with Commander Eileen Collins at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility Sunday morning after practice in the Shuttle Training Aircraft
Posted on 07/25/2005 11:12:32 AM PDT by My2Cents
Image above: STS-114 Mission Specialists Charlie Camarda (left) and Steve Robinson (right) with Commander Eileen Collins at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility Sunday morning after practice in the Shuttle Training Aircraft
Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on NASA's Return to Flight mission is still on track for Tuesday at 10:39 a.m., NASA Test Director Pete Nickolenko announced during a morning briefing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
"Our teams have worked hard to prepare Space Shuttle Discovery and her crew for launch," Nickolenko said.
According to International Space Station Mission Manager Scott Higginbotham, the hardware in Discovery's payload bay is ready for mission STS-114. At Launch Pad 39B, rollback of the Rotating Service Structure is set for 1:30 p.m. today, followed by the completion of pad closeouts.
The chance of Kennedy weather cooperating for the launch remains at 60 percent.
"We are still concerned that right around the launch time, the sea breeze will be developing, and some off-shore activity could bring in some anvil clouds and some showers or cumulous clouds in the area of the launch pad or the [Shuttle Landing Facility]," said Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters.
First Lady Laura Bush will be on hand at Kennedy for the Return to Flight liftoff, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan announced earlier today.
Ping
The Money Pit lives on.
don't hold your breath
Nevermind that tank sensor malfunction! Even though we can't explain what caused it and cannot replicate it, it's probably an isolated problem and likely won't cause a disaster.
Shuttle is still needed to fix Hubble.
The space program is one of only two programs that are worth funding. Defense is the other.
Not to mention if you look at what R&D for the space program has given us in return...In a multi-trillion dollar budget, the space program is such a minute fraction of overall spending it's not even worth mentioning.
God Speed and God Bless!
Godspeed.
I happen to enjoy baseball.
But the spinoffs man!
Good Times and The Jeffersons were very good. But, as spinoffs go, Mayberry, R.F.D. was lousy.
If it weren't for the space program we wouldn't have computers or weekends or fire!!!
On a wing and a prayer.
Overengeneered N.A.S.A. is running scared and this rocket ain't gonna go.
Every company and their little component will be polled and if an eyelash isn't in it's right place they will freak and cancel this going off.
N.A.S.A. ain't what it used to be.
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