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Posted on 05/27/2020 11:17:12 AM PDT by cll
First commercial, manned space flight in history. First American manned space flight since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.
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Rescheduled for 3:22p on Saturday.
Florida at this time of year is a crap-shoot weather wise in the afternoon. Why not launch earlier in the day, maybe before noon?
Scrub or postpone.
Mission scrubbed for today will try again on Saturday.
PT will likely come back on saturday.
BTW....did anyone ever hear what the crew named the capsule? They’d said they were going to reveal the name today, but I’ve seen nothing.
During the 1960’s when I lived in the Orlando area we would watch the launch on TV and then run out to view the the rocket in the sky with our eyes. The Saturn IB Rocket was a great visual image climbing towards space. But the Saturn 5, WOW you could hear it! 50 miles away and you can hear the rocket!
If they had had a longer launch window it might
have cleared but no such luck.
Because it’s been pouring buckets off and on all day!
Not surprised. Going into the summertime of Florida.
the weather is horrible today not worth the risk, rather wait than regret it later
Scrubbed
Fact check
They just mentioned that it was a matter of electrical activity in the air and that they need to much time to clear that criteria.
It’s a scrub. The launch window was instantaneous, so they couldn’t wait for another time today. That’s because of the position of the ISS at launch time so the astronauts would have a shorter ride to the ISS.
Oh well.. Scrubbed til Saturday.. Bummer.
Sitting here looking towards Cape area....
....sky is almost black
They were right to scrub
Even further than that! I lived in the western suburbs of Orlando then. It was pretty awesome.
“During the 1960’s when I lived in the Orlando area...”
Given what Orlando is like today (traffic, sprawl, crime, etc), it seems like that was a better time and place.
Bob and Doug are the pilots...take off ya hosers!
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