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New Problem Could Ground Space Shuttle Fleet

Posted by Hemos on from the cracking-and-breaking dept.

Ender writes "As if the NASA folks at KSC did not have enough problems to deal with a the moment, (see previous /. article on the engine cracks and the following CNN article on the repairs) a NEW problem has sufaced in the Apollo Era transporter which vehiculates the Shuttles to the launch pads (crawler). They found many cracked bearings in the cylinders that lift the shuttle and its launch platform on the transporter. After this discovery they took a look at the other crawler and it too had quite numerous cracked bearings. No word from NASA yet but these findings may further delay the next Space Shuttle launch which is currently scheduled for NET (no earlier than) Sept 28th and by the same token slow down the assembly of the ISS. Complete articles at SpaceFlightNow and United Press International."

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  1. Comedy Microsoft Option. by rizzuh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    NET, ISS [sic], delays, problems?

  2. drunken posts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Suficed"? "Vehiculates"? Please resist the temptation to post when you're wasted.

  3. vehiculates?? by pompomtom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I really hope that's a joke.

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    pompomtom

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  4. Not The Register, Fark. by Wee · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Slashdot has become the comment board for Fark, not The Register.

    Speaking of which, did anyone else really like the S/N ratio and volume of stories during that Slashdot Blackout thing? More stories, fewer coments would be fine by me. (Assuming I have any say at all, which I don't. I'm not actually paying for Slashdot or anything. My subsidy is purely limited to clicking banner ads and buying the occasional item from Thinkgeek.)

    -B

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    1. Re:Not The Register, Fark. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Fark you, register this!

  5. "Shock! Horror! Ginger isn't Segway" -Silicon.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Shock! Horror! Ginger isn't Segway" -Silicon.com

    On top of Bob Metcalfe's (founder of 3com, inventor of ethernet networking
    technology)
    comments about "IT" not being Segway... now comes:

    Dean Kamen's Segway HT is not the long awaited Ginger/IT invention by
    deduction:

    http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=10291 82 938&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=
    55054&REQSTR1=newsnow

    And here are some people commenting on the scoop:

    http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5282012

    http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=5975

    Also see http://www.ginger-chat.com/#newsitem1029121561,920 57, for
    additional info on how this was discovered.

  6. Me port Apache to ham sandwich! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Trolling