hal2kilo
Lifer
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Dude, you still watch mainstream channels like your local NBC/ABC/FOX etc?
News media has been a complete joke of soap operas during the day for low IQ people that don't work - and during the prime time they have "news" that borders on retardation as they cover insignificantly stupid shit like bringing in companies to market their shit during the newscast and covering other stupid shit. They aren't about news or whats important or teaching you anything. Then for prime time they have the equivalency of reality TV shows and American idol.
Seriously.... Find a better source of information.
zinfamous
No Lifer
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have you ever had that thing in your head that ever questions whether or not you should actually project the constant, crazy rage orgy going on in your brain into a public space? I mean...wtf does your rant here have to do with that comment, or the thread?
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Red for weather but they are proceeding with propellant loading. Weather is trending towards good.
(getting good with propellant loading while the crew is onboard was a major discus between SpaceX and NASA. Fueling can have issues and the shuttle used to do it before the crew got out to the pad in case something happened. SpaceX needs to load as close to launch as possible so they have enough fuel to land the first stage. To reduce the risk the crew arms the escape system in case something bad happens to pull them off to safety)
(getting good with propellant loading while the crew is onboard was a major discus between SpaceX and NASA. Fueling can have issues and the shuttle used to do it before the crew got out to the pad in case something happened. SpaceX needs to load as close to launch as possible so they have enough fuel to land the first stage. To reduce the risk the crew arms the escape system in case something bad happens to pull them off to safety)
hal2kilo
Lifer
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Nat Geo is doing the ABC feed which is not being fed to our local ABC outlet. ABC feed has a lot less "fluff" than Discovery. I think I'll stay with it.
Edit: behind the times. I see that Disney and Nat Geo are all part of ABC network. Now it makes sense not being covered on local affiliate. Can't disturb the soap opera viewers (they all must be in their 80's).
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hal2kilo
Lifer
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This is nothing. You should have been in 2nd grade when John Glenn was going into space. I think we must have set up in the multipurpose room with the 26 inch TV on a tall stand about 3 or 4 times before he finally went up.
hal2kilo
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Launch delays can be maddening. Sometimes their good. I remember one launch was scheduled such that my solar array deploy 3 days later was going to happen during a solar eclipse which would have caused thermal problems. Instead our shuttle got hit by hail on the pad and we delayed a month.
GodisanAtheist
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I once drove from California to Florida to watch a shuttle launch. It was delayed a week due to weather, so i drove around Flordia and the south for a while and it was awesome, then went back a week later and it was delayed again due to weather.
Spent a month basically driving around exploring the southern portion of the US. Then I went home.
One day I will watch something get shot into space in person. One day...
I understand the extreme need for caution when the payload is people, however. We most certainly are *not* the Russians.
Spent a month basically driving around exploring the southern portion of the US. Then I went home.
One day I will watch something get shot into space in person. One day...
I understand the extreme need for caution when the payload is people, however. We most certainly are *not* the Russians.
hal2kilo
Lifer
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It's quite impressive. Luckily, the company I worked for, trained sailors on how to convert an active missile into a instrumented missile for evaluation of reliability. Called In Tube Conversion (ITC). The training classrooms were on the base at Cape Canaveral, and I was down there setting up for the Demonstration and Shakedown Operation (DASO) of the USS H. M Jackson, which certifies the crew to be able to handle nuclear weapons and the weapon system itself.. Short story is I got to see the Shuttle launch while on the base, and then I got to see the first shuttle landing at the Kennedy Space Center on the same trip. It was the STS-41B mission (Feb 3, 1984). I will never forget it.
Hah! Yeah, well, Apollo 12 got hit by lightning twice after launching in a bad rainstorm. They blew out some power supply or something which screwed up all their telemetry and a bunch of other stuff. Fun way to begin your badass rocket trip, seventeen alarms and lights going off all at once!
Fortunately they could switch to a backup, and everything went back to normal after that.Astronauts are some damn freaky people. Or well, the extreme opposite of that I really should say. Ice cool level-headed unflappable guys. A normal person would panic or shut down in such a situation, they monitor and analyze, then correct. Amazing.
Sad to see the launch not happening today, btw. It would have been so epic. Alas, such is the way of things, it's not really a disappointment. It's just how we have to do things, bad things tend to happen when one starts to skimp on safety. History has taught us that many times, and not just when it comes to space flight.
K1052
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Per Trump's twitter feed he plans to be there, again. Flying the family down on AF1 for every attempt seems a little excessive and it's not like he's got anything else to do...
cytg111
Lifer
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Every drop of positive PR he can drain... Wanna wager he has tried to get his name on the rocket?
Thunder 57
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Hah! Yeah, well, Apollo 12 got hit by lightning twice after launching in a bad rainstorm. They blew out some power supply or something which screwed up all their telemetry and a bunch of other stuff. Fun way to begin your badass rocket trip, seventeen alarms and lights going off all at once!
Astronauts are some damn freaky people. Or well, the extreme opposite of that I really should say. Ice cool level-headed unflappable guys. A normal person would panic or shut down in such a situation, they monitor and analyze, then correct. Amazing.
Sad to see the launch not happening today, btw. It would have been so epic. Alas, such is the way of things, it's not really a disappointment. It's just how we have to do things, bad things tend to happen when one starts to skimp on safety. History has taught us that many times, and not just when it comes to space flight.
Interesting note about that, it was rookie astronaut Alan Bean who knew the procedure after being told to "...try SCE to Aux". Neither the Flight director or Flight Commander (as much as I love Pete Conrad) knew what that meant , at least in the moment, what that meant. Quick thinking by EECOM John Aaron who gave the order and the sharp memory of Alan Bean probably saved that mission from having to abort.
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