The Day Arives
Fact of the day: The Space Shuttle goes from standing still on the launch pad to more than 17,000 miles per hour in just over eight minutes.
Well 2.5 years of work to make a safter launch vehicle. And today, the shuttle will return to the heavens... well if it can fit in the 10 minute window of flight. Thats right, if weather is perfect on the needed 10 minutes today, then the shuttle will fly. If not, then 1000's of people will return to the consoles again tomorrow to try again... until the perfect weather.
Space flight isn't easy. In fact it dictates perfection.
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Here is a page on RTF (Return to Flight)
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Comments
No launch today... we knew that'd happen any way ... right?
Posted by: itzjerm | July 13, 2005 12:59 PM
AHH, NO LAUNCH...TO BAD
Posted by: Autumn | July 13, 2005 02:37 PM
It was very sad. Our floor had a launch party scheduled, but we still got to eat all of the cookies, chips & dip, but it just did not feel right.
Posted by: Jeremy | July 13, 2005 02:40 PM
Did that feeling of not rightness have anything to do with the launch not happening? Because I suspect it did. Speaking of launch, I'm hungry.
Posted by: Unapologetically Javann | July 14, 2005 12:19 PM