With Discovery going up in about a week, engineers are looking to fly up some parts. This, however, may be problematic considering the Japanese module that is being lifted by the orbiter is already so massive (~30000 pounds) that some sensors inside the orbiter with relation to the boom arm had to be removed for it to fit.
If there is a significant amount of parts, it simply may not be possible to place inside the orbiter during countdown given the size of its current payload and the number of balance/fuel/weight calculations that would have to be done.
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Anyone else want to go see this just for the shorts in the beginning?
I would assume that would be fine, however, there is still the question of mass and how that relates to mass. It is not so much a question of volume.
With Discovery going up in about a week, engineers are looking to fly up some parts. This, however, may be problematic considering the Japanese module that is being lifted by the orbiter is already so massive (~30000 pounds) that some sensors inside the orbiter with relation to the boom arm had to be removed for it to fit. If there is a significant amount of parts, it simply may not be possible to place inside the orbiter during countdown given the size of its current payload and the number of balance/fuel/weight calculations that would have to be done.
There are far more people working on osx86 than just Netkas, for the record.