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NASA To Delay Endeavour By 10 Days
gabbo529 writes "NASA announced recently it will be delaying the upcoming launch of the space shuttle Endeavour — the final one for the well-traveled spacecraft. Endeavour was originally slated to launch April 19, but due to a scheduling conflict with a Russian supply vehicle, NASA is delaying it. Likely, NASA will delay it 10 days to April 29, but nothing is official yet."
Saw the Endeavour at it's first launch from the VIP pad.. wish I was still in the industry to do it for the last. /rip space program
must be. because we know pure intentions, & majorities of anything, are unstoppable. the truth can still be delayed, but no longer distorted, as there's only one real accurate honest truthful version. imagine the natives launching a good will, peaceful, political campaign endeavor at this stage in their recovery from our arrival? time, space & circumstance has run amok for sure? it's not 'out there' anymore?
Seriously ... new account to post that ... what a douche!
indeed. the next flag on the moon will have 45 fewer stars.
hard to focus on, this stuff is nausea X .5 billion. all for.... the natives still do not have words in their vocabulary to describe what the queens' 'explorers' did to them. many still refuse to recognize the queens' english as a valid language. yahoo? savage? political aspirations? honestly.
>Maybe that will kick US ass...
Yawn. Wake me when they're doing the space science we're doing. Where are their versions of just the stuff we've done in the past decade? When are they launcing a hubble or a Stardust or an LCROSS or a Spirit or a Cassini or a Mars Global Surveyor or Deep Space 1? What part of the ISS have they built or ferried? Where is their competitive private industry changing the face of space exploration?
I love how the haters keep brining up the moon like its this great prize. Err, it a big universe out there.
Let me guess, you're just another pissant whiner who doesn't care two shits about space science or exploration, but has this NASCAR-like menality of "vroom vroom, machines go fast!!! USA #1!!' Guess what? Expect to be disappointed from now on. Go watch a monster truck show and leave space to the adults. Thanks.
I'll be in FL then, and I'd love to see the launch. I've always wanted to see one of the launches, but never made it down there.
that's the thing with disparaging fictional material, nobody knows, except the high # holycosters, & they can't tell, or everybody dies (who isn't a 3, count 'em THREE digit, freemason, ha ha), again.
jesusus' personal tastes that may have gotten him killed, may have been an affinity for the truth, even about pants? the graphic depiction of the methods of disposal, sounds typical of todays' holycosters. just #s. all business, except for the religious part.
rumors abound that the criteria to be newly chosen include being a female with hymen (stupid monkeys?) intact=75% holycost survival potential. that's great. explains all the revirginization clinics popping up?
babys rule for real.
Sucks for anyone who's scheduled launch parties or travel plans to view it in person. Though, delays are a shuttle launch staple, so anyone making those kind of plans should be prepared for that sort of thing.
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I love how the haters keep brining up the moon like its this great prize. Err, it a big universe out there.
It's worth noting that the Earth is by far the most valuable real estate in the Solar System. The Moon happens to be really close (for example, it takes less delta v to put something in Earth orbit from the Moon than it does from Earth and it is a bit over a light second from Earth, making it easy to communicate with stuff on the Moon) while no other serious bodies are. It also has resources (such as oxygen, titanium, aluminum, silicon, etc) and likely resources (such as gold, platinum group metals, water and other interesting volatiles). So yes, the Moon is a great, big prize.
Maybe they don't have kosher for passover meals?
Wow bummer. I was just there last week to see her sitting on the Launch Pad. Even though the hotel I was staying at was over 40 miles away they have been booked for months. Everyone should get to KSC and see the space shuttle on the launch pad before the last one goes up. They are already taking apart one of the 2 shuttle launch pads :-(
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It's worth noting that the Earth is by far the most valuable real estate in the Solar System.
Per square kilometer, yes. By object, the Sun has it beat in terms of value.
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Yawn. Wake me when they're doing the space science we're doing. Where are their versions of just the stuff we've done in the past decade? When are they launcing a hubble or a Stardust or an LCROSS or a Spirit or a Cassini or a Mars Global Surveyor or Deep Space 1? What part of the ISS have they built or ferried? Where is their competitive private industry changing the face of space exploration?
I agree strongly. Any serious activity in space requires doing things in space.
use them as a meteor shield on the iss. could leaving it in orbit be more useful ? could they find a cheaper safer way to bring back the crew?
Per square kilometer, yes. By object, the Sun has it beat in terms of value.
Brilliant comeback. We do need the Sun more than we need the Earth. Still, as real estate, there's not much you can do with the Sun directly.
That sucks, I was flying my parents from Italy to see the launch.