[Chaos-l] 1 Scrubbed launch attempt

[Tony Rice]

Frustrating isn't it?  I took the family down last summer to see
STS-127 go up.  It was scrubbed 5 times (which isn't the record
either).

We'd not left the hotel yet when the first scrub was annouced, next
one we were turned around at the KSC gates, (both were technical
scrubs due to a hydrogen leak in a vent line), next one was scrubbed
due to lightening strikes to the pad.  The 2 were weather related both
called in the built in  T-9:00 hold due to clouds over the shuttle
landing faculty and lightning in the area.

It's amazing how quickly they load up and clear the viewing areas out
after the scrub is announced.   Seconds after the words "well the
weather just didn't work out for us today" came out of the
loudspeakers, 50 buses started nearly in unison.

We've got our fingers crossed for you for 04:14 tomorrow.  I see that
the Air Force weather team has tomorrow as a 60% go for launch and
100% go for tanking operations:

http://www.patrick.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070517-025.pdf

-Tony

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Jayme Hanzak <jhanzak at unctv.org> wrote:
> Well, the international year of clouds continues.
>
> Yesterday was a beautifully clear day. Not a cloud in the sky. Even into the
> early morning
>
> the skies were clear. Then, 1.5 hour before launch. Tadaaaa! They're
> heeeerrrreeee.
>
> So we are hanging out one more day. The plus side is that we are closer to
> the launch
>
> pad. Hopefully the clouds will clear out.
>
>
>
> Jayme
>
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