The shuttle is scheduled to launch on December 17 @ 8:52 P.M. according to the local news. They day they have fixed all the problems and hurricane season ended yesterday. I'll just watch it from my backyard when it actually happens. The night time launches are really spectacular and light up the sky.
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Formula88 Member
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The shuttle is scheduled to launch on December 17 @ 8:52 P.M. according to the local news. They day they have fixed all the problems and hurricane season ended yesterday. I'll just watch it from my backyard when it actually happens. The night time launches are really spectacular and light up the sky.
Oooh, a NIGHT LAUNCH! Sweet! Take lots of pics! They're spectacular!
And on Dec. 17th. Very cool.
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Dec 9th, 2010
blakeinspace Member
Posts: 5923 From: Fort Worth, Texas Registered: Dec 2001
pushed back to Feb 3rd... Old Lar you may be right. A bit more and I WILL be able to make Daytona!
"NASA managers have targeted space shuttle Discovery's launch for no earlier than Feb. 3 at 1:34 a.m. EST. Shuttle managers determined more tests and analysis are needed before proceeding with the launch of the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station.
The Program Requirements Control Board met Thursday and reviewed engineering evaluations associated with cracks on two 21-foot-long,
U-shaped aluminum brackets, called stringers, on the shuttle's external tank. NASA repaired the cracks and reapplied foam to the
exterior of the stringers. Managers decided the analysis and tests required to launch Discovery safely are not complete. They are planning to conduct an instrumented test on the external fuel tank and structural evaluations on stringer test articles to determine whether the analysis is correct. Details and timelines for the tanking test are in work, but plans call for temperature and strain gauge measurements in the intertank region near the top of the tank during the test.
NASA will review and analyze the data from the tests before setting a launch date. Because of Discovery's delayed launch, the earliest opportunity for the liftoff of the final scheduled shuttle mission, STS-134 on Endeavour, is April 1."
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