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PeriscopeDepth
03-10-09, 07:55 PM
About 24 hours to launch now. A handful of people are about to leave our planet. Good luck to Discovery and her crew! :salute:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-119

PD
SUBMAN1
03-10-09, 08:10 PM
Cool! And the time suggests it will be another brilliant night launch, or at least have some dramatic background lighting!

-S
SmithN23
03-11-09, 04:49 PM
Its not going to happen tonight, there is a fuel leak in the external tank. It might launch tomorrow if all goes well.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508893,00.html
Falkirion
03-11-09, 05:49 PM
Earliest launch date now targeted for the 15th according to the engineers. Actual launch maybe on the 16th.

Hydrogen leak caused the launch abort this time, good thing too. Dont want the shuttle going up in a ball of flames.
bookworm_020
03-12-09, 01:14 AM
Better safe than sorry!:) Just as long as they come back in one piece!:up:
Enigma
03-12-09, 02:10 AM
I really need to get to a launch before the Shuttle era is over.....:yep:
baggygreen
03-12-09, 06:14 AM
Dont have too many left then mate!
Q3ark
03-12-09, 12:20 PM
Dont have too many left then mate!

When are they going to end the shuttle program? Didn't think NASA had anything to replace the shuttle with yet
Falkirion
03-12-09, 05:39 PM
Shuttles being retired as of 2010, I'd put money on the fact that they're operating at least until 2012 thouugh.

NASA are looking at the old Saturn IV style rockets as the next generation of space vehicle, named Ares. Also they're returning to the capsule design (ala Apollo) named the Orion.
Kapitan_Phillips
03-12-09, 05:42 PM
http://www.ipr.edu/multimedia/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/star-trek-spock1.jpg

If luck wasnt illogical, I'd wish them it in a heartbeat. :yep:
geetrue
03-12-09, 06:51 PM
Near miss for ISS: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/12/iss_evacuated_space_junk_march_09/


International Space Station crew members were forced to flee to the outpost's escape capsule briefly on Thursday when a rogue piece of space junk came too close for comfort.
The debris, a discarded mechanism used in boosting a satellite into higher orbit, missed the ISS without incident. The three astronauts took shelter for 11 minutes inside an attached Russian Soyuz module, which serves as the station's lifeboat if needed.