[Chaos-l] Discovery Launch Observation Tonight

[Robert Nielsen]

Yep.   Shuttle launch is scrubbed for tonight.  And I don't think we'll 
have a chance over the next couple of days to see anything but the 
bottom of clouds.

Robert

mdlemon at lemons-bend.com wrote:
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> It's pretty unlikely we will see anything considering the tent of 
> clouds we look to be receiving tonight.
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> Quoting Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org>:
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>> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/
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>> "The STS-119 launch was scrubbed at 2:37 p.m. EDT due to a hydrogen 
>> leak in a
>> Liquid Hydrogen vent line between the shuttle and the external tank. The
>> launch team is currently beginning the process of draining the 
>> external fuel
>> tank. We'll turn around for launch attempt tomorrow at 8:54 p.m. EDT."
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Wednesday 11 March 2009 14:44:58 Robert Nielsen wrote:
>>> Interesting.   www.cnn.com has "breaking news" that the launch of space
>>> shuttle Discovery that was to happen tonight has been postponed.  But
>>> nasa.gov says nothing about it.   Stay tuned to see if we need to go to
>>> Farrington Point tonight to try to view the launch ...
>>>
>>> Robert
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