NASA Skips Discovery's 1st Landing Attempt (Tues.)

[Eugene]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/09/AR2005080900084.html

NASA Skips Discovery's 1st Landing Attempt

By PAM EASTON
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 9, 2005; 3:30 AM

SPACE CENTER, Houston -- NASA ordered the astronauts aboard space
shuttle Discovery to bypass the first landing opportunity of the day on
Tuesday because of stormy weather off the Florida coast.

"At this time, we're going to ask you guys to watch the earth go by for
one more rev," or revolution, Mission Control told shuttle commander
Eileen Collins. "We do appreciate your patience and good humor with
the situation."

The agency had a second landing opportunity in Florida at 6:43 a.m.
EDT, 90 minutes after the first.

If the weather did not improve for the second opportunity, flight
controllers planned to land the shuttle in California.

more...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

1. NASA's live landing coverage.

http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/launch/landing-vlcc.html

[Swamp Rat]

2. 1st and 2nd attempt waved off. Now thinking CA landing at 7:12 am CST.

Space shuttle landing at 7:12 am CST, Edwards AFB. Runway 22. Clear skies, excellent conditions for a shuttle landing. 50th space shuttle landing at Edwards.

Streaming video at NASA:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

CENTRAL time. :D

[Bluebear]

3. 5:12 PST dude

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050809/us_nm/space_shuttle_dc_176

[Swamp Rat]

4. Oops! Yer right.

:spank:

[punpirate]

6. No reason to feel badly...

... it's the same time. :)

[Bluebear]

7. Naw he edited it

I have to lay out his pants and socks in the morning too. (JK!)

[Swamp Rat]

8. LOL! I don't wear pants or socks! NEVER!

:rofl:

I wear flip flops - cheap rubber, brazilian Havainas (com bandera do Brasil, certo!) that cost R$10 Reais, and shorts... ALL THE TIME! It is VERY hot where I live, and if I could, I'd walk around butt nekid. :D

like Gannon! :rofl:



Oh man, I'm, tired... wassup with Cindy?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. Poor fuckers... bad enough to know you are

going to be incinerated, but to have to wait for it?

Barbaric.

They should be sitting on the space station, safe and sound.

[Swamp Rat]

9. Don't write 'em off just yet!

But I unnerstan watcha mean. ;)

[jim3775]

10. That really is a horrible thing to say

They are not going to be incinerated.

I posted this yesterday:

This is the safest space flight ever

Ever! This flight is safer than all previous human and robotic space flights ever carried out. It doesn’t mean it can't be safer or that there aren’t better alternatives, it can, and there is.

Several rockets fail a year and only two out of 113 shuttle launches have failed.

Before this mission NASA would just have to trust that the wing leading edge and the "belly" of the shuttle were intact, not any more. This was the most highly inspected and monitored mission NASA has ever done and this flight was the first time ever a flight vehicle has been inspected and repaired in-flight.

Discovery is coming back just fine.

[SoCalDem]

11. I hope you are right..

but IF there is a problem, I wonder how long it will take the freeps to comment on the fact that a "woman was in charge":(

[Massacure]

14. Nope your wrong. They are sitting safe on Terra Firma now.

The glass was half full not half empty. ;)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

17. Well, I am very happy for them

Still does not change the fact that NASA gambled unnecessarily with their lives when a perfectly safe option existed.

That is the whole problem we face now. People have come to believe the ends justify the means.

They don't. Not in war. Not in peace.

This just will make the bastards bolder, leading to a bigger let down.

c'est la vie.

[Swamp Rat]

12. Yaay! The shuttle has landed safely!!! 7:11:22 am CST.

:woohoo: :applause:

[sendero]

13. I am so glad..

... they had a successful mission. I was worried.

[Swamp Rat]

15. Me too!.. now I can sleep.

Between this and getting the word out about Cindy Sheehan, I'm exhausted! ... :boring:

[klyon]

16. that sure is a relief

I didn't know what to think. This administration has misled us so many times I wasn't sure everything was alright.

Way to go team, good job.
KL