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To: don-o; HipShot
Questtion was asked: Assuming they did fuel it, how long can it stay in that condition?

Maybe HipShot can answer that question, it IS his field, after all....or was before he retired. My observation might be to go back to the early days of the US Space Program, say Mercury or Geminii. How long did they let those birds sit on the pad before scrubbing a mission. I recall that one of them was forced to go to the bathroom in his suit rather than break him out of the capsule to find a facility. That bird flew, too. I guess it was Sheppherd and after he "went" they lit the candle!

1,402 posted on 06/18/2006 7:35:15 PM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier

It's probably already too late, assuming they were fueled and ready to go at 1am est last night. Upthread the time-window was listed as 48 hrs but who knows how nk enginering works with rocket tanks. The only thing we know for sure is that some nk engineers are now very nervous. LOL.


1,403 posted on 06/18/2006 7:46:13 PM PDT by Dosa26
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I read somewhere that they have 48 hours from the time they fuel the thing until the time when the acidic fuel begins to degrade the missile...... don't know how fast or how severely that problem develops but they may not have many more hours to decide to launch it or else risk catastrophe when they do try to launch it and it blows up. Would be NICE if we had some way of making it blow up for them..........


1,410 posted on 06/18/2006 10:14:27 PM PDT by Enchante (General Hayden: I've Never Taken a Domestic Flight That Landed in Waziristan!)
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To: ExSoldier; Dan(9698)
Questtion was asked: Assuming they did fuel it, how long can it stay in that condition?

Dan(9698) is an ex-missile guy. He might be able to answer this one.

1,428 posted on 06/19/2006 10:36:23 AM PDT by TChris ("Wake up, America. This is serious." - Ben Stein)
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