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Posted Saturday 13th June 2009 22:37 GMT
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
Posted Saturday 13th June 2009 22:37 GMT
.. they weren't racing up to save Atlantis!
Posted Saturday 13th June 2009 22:37 GMT
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
Posted Saturday 13th June 2009 22:51 GMT
"although that date poses a "range conflict" with the intended launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter"
Not to mention THE IPONE 3.0 LAUNCH!!!!!!!
Posted Sunday 14th June 2009 20:07 GMT
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.
Posted Sunday 14th June 2009 20:07 GMT
.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
Posted Sunday 14th June 2009 20:08 GMT
...hydrogen, schmydrogen. Send 'er up anyway - we got quotas to meet!
Posted Monday 15th June 2009 09:08 GMT
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.
Posted Monday 15th June 2009 13:08 GMT
"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.
Posted Monday 15th June 2009 13:55 GMT
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
Posted Monday 15th June 2009 16:23 GMT
According to Wikipedia
Soyuz 102
Shuttle 134 (eight more planned)