NASA, SpaceX scrub mission to pick up International Space Station astronauts

[question everything]

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Source: UPI/Yahoo

March 12 (UPI) -- NASA and SpaceX on Wednesday night scrubbed the Falcon 9 launch of a flight intended to retrieve from the International Space Station astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have spent nine months in orbit because of technical concerns about their Boeing capsule.

About a half hour before the scheduled 7:48 p.m. EDT launch from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, the mission was called off because of a hydraulic system issue with a ground support clamp arm, NASA said.

A new launch date and time wasn't given.


Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/starliner-astronauts-suni-ailliams-butch-141250493.html

[Frasier Balzov]

1. Dammit. I can't hate this news more than those two stranded crew.

[Mustellus]

17. See several of my posts below...

Astronauts WANT TO FLY. That's why their posts, and that of the space station commander, directly contradicted Elmo Musk's lies.

[highplainsdem]

2. Duplicate. Earlier thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143416640

[question everything]

4. No, this was first. Unless you measure the time in seconds. Why is it so important to you?

[highplainsdem]

6. The URL for your thread ends in 41. Mine ends in 40, so it was earlier.

I've had to delete a thread before when it was posted just seconds after another OP on the same story.

[AZJonnie]

10. No dupes is a rule particular to LBN, I'm sure HPD is only mentioning it because it's this forum

[highplainsdem]

13. Thanks! It's important here to preview an OP before posting it, too, since fairly often someone else might

have posted a breaking story while you were writing your own OP about it, and if so, it'll have shown up in that list of recent OPs, and so you just forget about posting what would be a duplicate. I've scrapped a lot of OPs I'd planned to post at that stage. Sometimes DUers post at almost exactly the same second anyway, and then you have to check the URL to see which was first, and if yours was second, even if the posted time in minutes is the same, it's best to delete yours and save the hosts from having to check URLs and delete it.

[Historic NY]

3. It time to stop sending people up there when neither system is reliable

so what now we have to beg the Russians.

[question everything]

5. All I hope is for the safe return of the astronauts who have been there too long

[Mustellus]

15. six months...

...is the standard rotation time on the space station

[wryter2000]

7. Robotic probes

Can go farther and collect more data than human missions. Stop sending humans into space.

[angrychair]

8. This was political, not mechanical

Early in his administration TSF said Biden left them stranded and the astronauts said that was not the case and that this pick up date was the actual plan from the beginning.
They questioned dear leader and now they are going to make them suffer for it.

[AZJonnie]

11. Totally believable. Would also not be surprised if the Russians now go up and 'rescue' them

F'elon and the Felon love to give 'wins' to Russia.

[exboyfil]

9. Mars? We can't reliably get to low Earth orbit

[Mustellus]

16. The launch window for a space station rendezvous orbit is...

.. instantaneous. A few seconds at most. If everything isn't perfect, you don't launch.

Can we reliably go to the grocery store? Almost 40,000 Americans die in car crashes each year, most within a few miles of home.

[Mustellus]

14. As a Professor of Astronautical Engineering ....

... in my former (pre - retirement) life, I've educated astronauts. Five of my students flew the shuttle, more to the space station.

This is BULLSHIT. Astronauts WANT to fly. My 10 days jaunt has been extended to six months? Lots of food, water, and air? I'm in no danger, lots of productive work to do on the station.... YES!!!!!!

Elmo Musk wanted to be paid for another launch, and the Murrican press gets their Astronautical Engineering knowledge from Lost in Space.

[Omaha Steve]

18. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

DUPE of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143416640

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