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NASA Ponders Postponing Launch until July

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the wait-for-it dept.

BitFluid writes "According to Sun-Sentinel.com, NASA is considering postponing its Return to Flight shuttle launch because of 'ongoing concern about possible ice buildup on a liquid oxygen propellant line.' Apparently, that stuff turns into debris on launch, a risk they need time to investigate. If delayed, the target launch window becomes July 13 through July 31."

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  1. It makes sense not to launch on the 4th. by dabigpaybackski · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One serious mishap and they'd have one hell of a Roman candle.

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    "OH SHIT, THERE'S A HORSE IN THE HOSPITAL!"
  2. Re:Let's give it up already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    International cooperation? Sheeeyeah, right! The French would insist on building TWO remote manipulator arms so that they could surrender to the first aliens that come along. The Dutch and Scandinavians would just move their world-dominant child pornography industry to space. The system of governance on board the "international" space station would collapse every other week but socialists would continue to win the elections time after time anyway.

    Europeans are pussies.