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Space Shuttle One Step Closer To July Launch

Posted by timothy on from the how-to-launch-public-money-into-space dept.

Mictian writes "The risk to the space shuttle from launch debris, mainly ice falling off the external tank, has been reduced and is now low enough to be considered 'an acceptable risk,' NASA's shuttle engineers and managers concluded in the debris verification meeting held Saturday at Kennedy Space Center. The board recommended a green light for a July launch, which Shuttle Program Manager Bill Parsons accepted. The independent Return to Flight Task Group will hold its final meeting on June 27th to determine if the remaining 3 (out of 15) hurdles to launch are cleared, as mentioned in previous Slashdot coverage."

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  1. Easy. by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    NATURE'S HARMONIC
    SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
    TIME CUBE

    An open mind is a slop bucket,
    "THINK CUBIC".
    The Time Cube only offends
    the educated stupid - but there
    are so damn many of them.
    Academia teaches the evil of
    singularity to human cubics -
    born of opposites.
    I am flabbergasted that the
    "big brother" hired pedants
    can brainwash and indoctrinate
    the powerful antipode human
    mind to ignore the simple math
    of 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth,
    to worship one and trash three.
    Magnificient evil job by teachers.

    EVIL OBSCURANTISM
    (Deliberately withholding CUBIC KNOWLEDGE)
    No human "entity" exists.
    Except for OPPOSITES,
    NOTHING ELSE EXISTS.
    Cube is opposite perfection.
    Singularity is death worship.

  2. Re:Successor to the shuttle? by kihjin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Cylons attack...

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  3. tub6i8l by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's best To try

  4. Re:Is it worth it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A more inappropriate use of money is donating money to africa. £200 billion of aid has been stolen by African "Chiefs" over the last 40 years. The same amount the west has give to africa in the same amount of time.

  5. Re:Is it worth it? by Council · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if ((A isNot B) == (&A != &B)) { return new Patent(this->Innovation()) }

    What does &A mean, in this context?

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  6. OMFG by Uber+Banker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Richard Whitley is DEAD!

    RIP, oh great pun one.

    1. Re:OMFG by floron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      oh no. He was Commanding. And a Worldly.

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