Place your bets on Space Shuttle launch

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UPDATED: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 03:22
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PIRATENEWS

Monday, July 17, 2006 2:33 PM

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Space.com wrote:

“The question is what’s leaking,” said Shannon, who also chairs Discovery’s STS-121 Mission Management Team, during a briefing here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. In my view, it’s a coin flip.” NASA managers and engineers are assuming the worst – a hydrazine leak.

It's been over an hour and the crew is still trapped on the shuttle, while the groundcrew tries to "safe" the APUs leaking explosive rocket fuel that ignites spontaneously... Yikes. Seems like a crazy way to run an airline. 50/50 odds...

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, July 17, 2006 4:11 PM

Erhm, PN ?

Part of that is for whatever damnfool design oversight, the shuttle does not have a grounding strap (a device used to ground off static electricity built up during flight) and to connect one would risk a spark when attached, so they have to wait for the charge to dissipate before prior to disembarking.

I'm sure folks with actual experience in aviation can explain that issue better.

Instead of bitchin so damn much, why don't ya go dig up some info on alternatives and present it, make yourself useful, eh?

-Frem

PDCHARLES

Monday, July 17, 2006 4:17 PM

No Need Frem,

I am sure in his world there is a StarGate at the Bohemian Grove.

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, July 17, 2006 7:22 PM

That wouldn't surprise me, cause most of the washington in-crowd doesn't seem to belong to the same species as the rest of us anyhow...

*V: The Final Battle Flashback*

I'm still waiting for Cheney to start scratching his chin and accidently take off part of his face, cause that has GOT to be a lizard.

Oh, hey... if we manage to prove they're aliens, wouldn't they be ILLEGAL aliens, and we could deport them ?

Put that damn rickety shuttle back together boys, we got a new mission for ya, and it's a 1-way-trip!

Can you tell I've had five expressos today...
They were on sale

-Frem

PDCHARLES

Monday, July 17, 2006 7:31 PM

good one Frem...

Thats what really happened during the hunting accident...

he had to put the latex face back on...

double expresso

Deported Aliens: U mean u want us to sit on top of solid explosives. Riiightttt!

DANFAN

Monday, July 17, 2006 8:05 PM

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Oh, hey... if we manage to prove they're aliens, wouldn't they be ILLEGAL aliens, and we could deport them ?
-Frem

Why do you think they're proposing a "foreign worker" permit program? It's not for the Mexicans.

I can picture the blank on the form for "type of work performed." That's where he writes in "Vice President"...

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:22 AM

ROBOTS R US

Reggie, a senior NASA official (yellow shirt), safely lands the space shuttle Discovery by remote control

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Erhm, PN ?

Part of that is for whatever damnfool design oversight, the shuttle does not have a grounding strap (a device used to ground off static electricity built up during flight) and to connect one would risk a spark when attached, so they have to wait for the charge to dissipate before prior to disembarking.

I'm sure folks with actual experience in aviation can explain that issue better.

Instead of bitchin so damn much, why don't ya go dig up some info on alternatives and present it, make yourself useful, eh?

-Frem

Normally, you attach the grounding strap to the aircraft first, then attack the cable to the ground connector, which keeps the spark away from the aircraft during refueling, or "defueling" with the shuttle. But you can't attach a grounding strap to a styrofoam coffee cup, which is what the space shuttle is made of. That hydrazine is deadly, both from sparks and poison fumes. That must be why NASA put a giant fan at the nose of the shuttle after landing, like Cape Kennedy is some kind of white trash trailer park.

At least Discovery discovered a new material impervious to vibration at launch, can withstand Mach 25, is immune to nuke radiation, and survives 5,000-degree F re-entry burn, so the mission wasn't a total fiasco.

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Although safe, Discovery's hourlong descent from orbit was marked by some unusual events, reminders that spaceflight always involves a multitude of risks big and small:

One of three power units needed to power the hydraulic landing systems was leaking, but operated properly. NASA still does not know whether harmless nitrogen gas or flammable hydrazine was escaping.

The sound of gunshots and blaring car horns heralded Discovery's return; NASA made the racket to keep birds out of the shuttle's path. As it turns out, the shuttle was decorated with bird droppings before liftoff, and the residue made it all the back from orbit, albeit a bit charred.

Griffin noted that NASA faces 16 more shuttle flights to complete the space station and, hopefully, repair the popular Hubble Space Telescope (that can't see any evidence that Apollo landed on the Moon).

NASA is up against a hard 2010 deadline for completing the space station. That's when the three remaining shuttles will be retired to make way for a new spaceship capable of carrying astronauts to the moon and eventually on to Mars (bullshit).

http://news.yahoo.com

Build the shuttle out of birdshit, and it shall survive Mother Nature's fury. Then it can be recycled into fertilizer.

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