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NASA Delays Shuttle Launch Until Monday
rfunches writes "The Associated Press and the New York Times are now reporting that Atlantis will not launch Sunday. The delay will 'give engineers more time to determine whether one of the most powerful lightning strikes ever at a Kennedy Space Center launch pad caused any problems. The lightning Friday didn't hit the shuttle — it struck a wire attached to a tower used to protect the spacecraft from such strikes at the launch pad — but it created a lightning field around the vehicle, NASA managers said. The launch, planned for Sunday, now won't happen until at least Monday.'"
It's probably no worse than the extreme conditions it endures in space or during re-entry, but it sure looks nasty.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
This is one reason why blaming teachers for American problems is so silly. When newscaster talk about a lighting field, when real estate agents talk about square footage, when the president brags that he never reads, how can a teacher compete? The conceptual errors propagated by those who have the press are insurmountable.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black