Posted on 07/31/2007 11:41:16 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A week before Endeavour's planned liftoff, NASA was analyzing a cabin leak in the space shuttle Tuesday.
The leak was detected over the weekend. NASA thought it fixed the problem by tightening a loose bolt, but testing Monday night confirmed air was still escaping from the crew cabin, said NASA spokeswoman Tracy Young.
Engineers have yet to pinpoint the leak, which could require so much work that NASA might not be able to launch Endeavour on Aug. 7.
NASA's planned launch of the Mars lander Phoenix later this week could also interfere with Endeavour's flight. The Phoenix has only three weeks in which to launch before facing a two-year wait, and the mission already was pushed back from a Friday launch to Saturday because storms delayed rocket preparations.
Space agency officials have indicated they want the Mars craft on its way before Endeavour gets a turn at launching.
The shuttle's trip to the international space station includes schoolteacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, who was Christa McAuliffe's backup in 1986. McAuliffe was killed along with six others when the Challenger broke up shortly after liftoff.
Almost time for summer vacation! WOOHOO!
Better NOT be any NASA probing, though!
(Then again, they don't say which bolt got tightened, hmm?)
Geeze.....pressurize it with helium and get the sniffer out.
Hell, just depressurize it and use an ultrasonic detector on the inside.
“Scotty, report!”
“Aye Keptain....we have a leak alright. Crown Royal is all over the place...and the vodka, Sweet Mary and Joseph, the engines can’t take much more!”
“Understand, Scotty, situation is NORMAL. Kirk out!”
(typical intercom exchange these days on shuttle flights)
Looks like they found it . . . .
It was Richard Armitage stowing away in one of the experiment crates.
Was Sandy Burgler in the area?
Engineers have yet to pinpoint the leak, which could require so much work that NASA might not be able to launch Endeavour on Aug. 7.
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That’s a shocking sentence......hi-tech stethoscopes ought to find it pretty easily......and I don’t mean the ones they sell on Snap-On trucks, I mean the real McCoy.
Which drinking game is it again you play by loosening bolts?
plug the leak with a diaper soaked in vodka.
Did NASA release the NAME of the perp who sabotaged
the two computers?
If not, then they are fools to continue, given this leak.
PC behavior has already killed, needlessly.
Just so long as it isn’t the keg that’s leaking.
Yeah, I’d be kinda scared to ridde that bomb with the recent revelations, and a little bondo patch between me and no oxygen.
(chuckle)
Which drinking game is it again you play by loosening bolts?
Depends on who’s nuts are involved...just a guess.
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