NASA has been trying to launch the Space Shuttle for the last two days in a row but couldn't do so because of the weather.
This news just broke: "CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inspectors found a 5-inch-long crack in the foam insulation covering the shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, and NASA managers were deciding Monday whether to call off the scheduled Fourth of July launch."
Let's scrap that project, save some lives, and save a train load of cash.
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7.03.2006
There's No Way I'm Getting IN That Piece Of Junk
NASA has been trying to launch the Space Shuttle for the last two days in a row but couldn't do so because of the weather.
This news just broke: "CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inspectors found a 5-inch-long crack in the foam insulation covering the shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, and NASA managers were deciding Monday whether to call off the scheduled Fourth of July launch."
Let's scrap that project, save some lives, and save a train load of cash.
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I totally agree BSG. It is sickening to watch billions and billions of tax payer dollars being spent of this reusable launch vehicle. And yet at the same time, after 3 years NASA has not been able to solve the foam problem. Whats even worse is Burt Rutan from Scaled Composites built a reusable spacecraft for under $30 million and has hit orbit 25 times already in the last year and a half. Our government should feel embarrassed and ashamed.
Wrong 9:15: Burton has NEVER hit orbit; his vehicle has traveled high enough to negate the effects of earths gravity, a VERY DIFFERENT position in relation to the earths surface. Granted, the current vehicle has major design/structural flaws, but we spend less on space exploration than we do propping up some third-world gov'ts. And did any of them ever give us the likes of velcro or microwave ovens like research related to the space program in the 1060's did?
Fine. No more exploration. But please give back all the technologies that have spun out, including everything from the mundane (better bouncing tennis shoes) to the important (microchips, communications technologies, cancer vaccines, food preservatives...so no more blog I guess). The Mayflower was probably a dangerous, expensive ship, too...as were most of the rickety wagons that people risked their lives in simply crossing a stream to get to Texas and create towns like Decatur. But, that's it. We're done now. No more learning. No more trying.
Yeah well either way NASA is getting ridiculous. Did you see the new ROCKETS planned for the next moon mission. It is like we are going with what we already know will work-technology from the 50's and 60's, instead of actually footing the bill to get a relatively safe and futuristic vehicle for our space program.
Didja ever wonder how Kennedy proposed going to the moon and returning within 10 years but 40 years later Bush proposed the same thing to be accomplished in 15 years? Are we getting dumber and/or slower with our rocket programs? Or is it because of a Republican congress that is more interested in stuffing their own pockets?
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