Spacenerds: Shuttle launch - TONIGHT 9:40

[Bendy]

<< EDIT.... Skip to the end! Re-scheduled for Thursday 24th Feb @ 9.50pm >>



OK so it's been scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed all week as various bits didn't work and then the weather today sucked.

So... they'll try again on Friday. About 7pm if my sums are right.

www.spaceflightnow.com , www.spacevidcast.com or www.nasa.gov/ntv will have live coverage.

In the meantime, you can occupy yourself with this

[Bendy]

70% chance it'll happen today.

[angryjonny]

Ominous date for it, really.

[Redoko]

Never really been into space etc...

But the engineering on those shuttles is mind blowing.
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ETD is 3: 04pm EDT, so 4 hours behind GMT, 1904hrs lift off UK time.
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[Bendy]

535,000 gallons of fuel going onboard.

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[ollieholt]

fucking terrible if there just going into space station orbit. its only about 300 miles up isnt it? geeks confirm or deny please lol so tahts about 2000 gals per mile.
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[Frost]

The distance isn't the issue. You could get something the 300km up to where the station is, but it would just fall back to earth. The fuel is used getting to orbital velocity (25,000km/h?) so that it stays up there.

As far as i know there is another shuttle launch early next year....

[Bendy]

[jay12329]

Can Bendy's title please be changed to chief space g33k?

J

[SirEdward]

I'll be cumming all over the rooms and hallway.
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[Bendy]

Scrubbed again. Someone got Hydrogen all over their shoes.

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[AngelGrinder]

This leak again shows that they shuttles needed to be re-invented, now it's been too long, they are being scrapped. If they had been invested in better, surely we would have had a more advanced, and possibly cheaper space program?
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[panrider_uk]

China have launched 12 rockets sucessfully this year (should be 15 by year end) including more of their own GPS constellation and are planning to launch a mini space station next year.

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[Bendy]

I didn't think it was set in stone yet - Obama signed off on the money but I didn't think NASA had decided 100% that they'd spend it on another shuttle launch yet.

Very cool if they have, always seemed like an idiotic waste to get it all ready and not fly it.

[angryjonny]

[Frost]

Russians beat them to it on that one.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Buran_on_An-225_(Le_Bourget_1989).JPEG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)

[blurredman]

[Bikeless]

I bet i've missed it now and the last one was ace,Cheers Bendy,

[Bendy]