Shuttle Mission STS-115 "Return to Assembly"

100,000 amps is nasty.

 

Alright, I just noticed you said "tomorrow" on a Saturday here on FL time. I'm guessing you meant Monday for US in FL. You almost freaked me out a bit since I didn't make plans yet to head out there.

 

Just delayed to Tuesday at 3:41 PM local time.

 

Ouch. I guess we all, myself included, just don't have any idea what a task it is to put stuff into orbit. One of the problems with being an enginerd is that I know how much I don't know. I could offer lots of uninformed opinions about how we should retire the shuttle, etc, but I'm not going to armchair quarterback these guys.

Reach for the stars.

 

They'll get it launched, just some weather problems in the way.

100,000 amps X 100,000,000 Volts = 10 Trillion Watts.

That's a serious load! I wonder what guage is required for that amount of juice? (that beats Doc Brown's 1.21 Gigawatts figure)

 

I'm not so sure of that. The hurricane path has it right through KSC, but the shuttle can withstand those forces. Hopefully they won't scrub because I want to drive out there tomorrow.

Edit: I'm an idiot, didn't check NASA's site before posted. Roll back in process.

 

100,000 amps. Wow. That is some serious juice.

10,000 gigawatts Yeah that beats Doc Brown's juice by a fair bit.

But then again, it's only .01 petawatts, meh :lol:

 

Atlantis making a U-turn (well, just reverse ) and heading back to the pad after gonig 1/2 way back to the hanger. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday will be a possible launch. Earliest on Saturday.

 

They are going to leave it out there while Ernestos out there? Weird..according to Nasa..its "running" for cover.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/

 

The launch pad and shuttle can withstand hurricane force winds. Ernesto isn't even a 'cane anymore and it will weaken as it goes north through FL. In fact, I live directly in the path of Ernesto here in Orlando and it shouldn't be bad at all.

 

Your link also says Atlantis will weather the storm on the pad. It's fairly recent news. Within the past 1/2 hour. The site wasn't updated when you probably saw it.

 

We had some hurricanes come through central FL back in 2004. I believe it stood up fine. It just needed some repaint.

This storm shouldn't be much anyways. It's not that strong and I doubt it will do anything at all. I'll post back here tomorrow this time when it comes through Orlando to let you know.

 

Atlantis is about to take off from my backyard soon. We had some thunderstorms close to KSC earlier, but it has moved on.

 

Sounds like they (accidentially or otherwise) blocked your IP address.

I saw a shuttle launch once, it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.

I've always been curious, who was the genius who decided to launch shuttles from hurricane alley?

 

Where else would they launch from? They'd like to have lots of water in case it crashes so it doesn't hit land or homes. California? Then we would be talking about earthquakes. Texas? Hurricanes again. Northeast seaboard and Arizona/New Mexico? Too cold. We saw what happened with o-rings that freeze with Challenger.

 

That makes sense Thanks fellas.

 

More issues:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/06/09/space.shuttle.ap/index.html

They seem to be in a hurry to get this thing to space.