happened last time?
did a similar leak not cause one of those emergency crews to zoom in for an hour or so a wee bit before the launch of StS 119?
article a bit short
NASA scrubs Endeavour launch
NASA scrubbed the planned launch of space shuttle Endeavour early on Saturday morning due to "a leak associated with the gaseous hydrogen venting system outside the external fuel tank". The agency explained: "The system is used to carry excess hydrogen safely away from the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At …
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AHEM!>?
"although that date poses a "range conflict" with the intended launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter"
Not to mention THE IPONE 3.0 LAUNCH!!!!!!!
Shuttle or launcher?
So... the problem is actually with that hug mobile launch pad thingy, rather than with the shuttle itself?
Paris because nothing would stop her from docking.
@ Just as well..
.The rescue launch would have been on the other launchpad, so the problem may not have occurred.
And I expect they'd have launched anyway. I was told that they would have launched even though the weather at the time would have precluded a routine launch
Ehhh...
...hydrogen, schmydrogen. Send 'er up anyway - we got quotas to meet!
@frank ly
Hydrogen can be a bitch to work with- even airtight seals won't hold necessarily hold it (see the rate of deflation for an H2 balloon over an air one at similar pressure) and you need non-H2 reactive sealing materials.
However, you'd have thought that NASA could have sorted these problems in 20 / 30 years. Then again the Shuttle never was a serious space vehicle.
@ @frank ly
"Then again the Shuttle never was a serious space vehicle."
What? It's flown more than any other manned vehicle. It can carry a crew of seven (more than its planned successor). With a massive cargo bay, robot arm, and the capability of allowing the crew to do repairs in Earth orbit.
@ @@frank ly "Flown more..."
Nope,
Soyuz has the Shuttle beat in launches and returns. Although I haven't tallied the total number of people carried; 3 per Soyuz, 7 per Shuttle.
DX
Re @ @@frank ly "Flown more..."
According to Wikipedia
Soyuz 102
Shuttle 134 (eight more planned)
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