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Shuttle Launch Delayed Again, Possibly Until December

Posted by samzenpus on from the catch-you-next-month dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NASA engineers worked overnight trying to fix the electrical problem that forced the launch of space shuttle Discovery to be delayed again. Mission managers will meet later Wednesday to figure out if a launch on Thursday is even possible. The tentative plan is to have Discovery lift off Thursday at 3:29pm. If that does not happen it would be rescheduled for Sunday. If it cannot launch Sunday then it will have to wait until December. NASA engineers have a lot of work on their hands Wednesday morning. Discovery has an electrical issue that forced officials to postpone its liftoff, which had been rescheduled for Wednesday afternoon."

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  1. electrical issue??? by MichaelKristopeit132 · · Score: -1, Troll

    are you sure it wasn't just a "space shuttle issue"? thanks for being specific, NASA... i'm confident my tax dollars are in good hands.

    1. Re:electrical issue??? by MichaelKristopeit129 · · Score: -1, Troll
      took the same minute to read the summary which was longer than the linked-to article.

      what was the expected start up time? what was the actual start up time? what was the expected voltage? what was the actual voltage? is this a site for scientists or marketeers?

      slashdot = stagnated.

  2. Re:Tea Party Tard by MichaelKristopeit129 · · Score: -1, Troll
    you can't fight your own battles? you wish to deny others their opinion?

    why do you cower? what are you afraid of?

    the truth threatens you. you're completely pathetic.

  3. Re:Tea Party Tard by MichaelKristopeit129 · · Score: -1, Troll
    pathetic is cowering.

    why do you cower? what are you afraid of?

    i don't NEED any accounts. i HAVE accounts. if ANY account can be dismissed as a puppet, THEN ALL ACCOUNTS ARE PUPPETS.

    perhaps you cower because you're retarded.

    you are NOTHING.

  4. Help. Please help. The Cloning went wrong... by MichaelKristopeit134 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't you call me a troll, you snivelling nonentity. You are a fool, I do not COWER, I do not respect cows at all.

    Is Michael Kristopeit 126, 127, 132, 134... even my real name? Perhaps I chose it to make the real Michael Kristopeit look stupid.

    Ha ha, I am so clever, I can register multiple accounts. Muwahahahahaha!!

    I will go now, but I *will* be back because I am being called to dinner. I like barm cakes, me.

  5. Re:Tea Party Tard by MichaelKristopeit134 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Definite Tea Party Tard

    U Mad U Lost?

    You tell them, girl! Mmm, mmm.

    I'm annoyed as hell and I'm not going to take it any more. I can register multiple accounts, so pay attention to me!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111

  6. Re:Why bother? by 0123456 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Again, if that were true, *they would have*.

    Why?

  7. Re:Tea Party Tard by MichaelKristopeit129 · · Score: -1, Troll
    so says the coward.

    so which of my accounts is the "ordinary account", coward?

    why do you cower? what are you afraid of?

    you're not only completely wrong, you're completely pathetic.

  8. Re:Tea Party Tard by MichaelKristopeit161 · · Score: 0, Troll
    not ordinary at all if no one has access to it.... and not correct at all if you're attempting to determine the first account i'd ever created. hint: it was in 1997... before the stagnation of marketeer ignorance.

    why do you cower? what are you afraid of?

    you're completely pathetic.