Discovery's launch date was announced following a flight readiness review that took place over the weekend. During the meeting, NASA managers and senior executives of its subcontractors heard assessments about the expected risk of the mission
After a delay of about a month, the space shuttle Discovery will finally lift off from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, March 11 at 21:20 p.m. EST, six hours later according to Israel time, which is 03:20 a.m. Thursday morning (the United States is expected to switch to summer and until Israel passes, the difference will decrease by an hour).
The STS-119 mission will carry two large arrays of solar collectors that will increase the station's solar power generation capacity to support a larger crew. The launch was planned for early February, but managers became concerned after a malfunction in the hydrogen flow valve controllers on the shuttle Endeavor last fall. They sought to rule out fear of a similar fault in the Discovery.
Discovery's launch date was announced following a flight readiness review that took place over the weekend. During the meeting, NASA managers and senior executives of its subcontractors heard assessments about the expected risk for the mission and determined that the equipment on the shuttle, the support systems and the procedures are in order.
The director of the shuttle program at NASA, John Shannon said that "this is one of the problems that requires a lot of work. Such a decision was too early to date. The signs were that we were safe, but the teams asked to check and collected data that confirmed this decision."
Mike Leinbach, the shuttle's launch manager, added that from a process perspective, the shuttle is in good shape. “It's a good feeling to be here with a confirmed launch date. I saw a lot of people after the meeting and the mood was uplifting." added
Today, Sunday, the astronauts who are scheduled to board the shuttle will take off from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they are training, to the Kennedy Space Center, the launch site.
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How many years does the mourner have left to "live"?
It's okay Daphne, there's no need to be angry, I got it, breathe.
But what about the mourning service mission???????
What is this stupid discussion? For example, I didn't know half of the things that are written here, and the information presented here fills me in on a lot of things that I didn't know. Not everyone visits this site every day.
These links appear under the heading: "on the same subject" right before the comments. But if the opportunity is necessary, I will also include them in the article.
February 21:https://www.hayadan.org.il/nasa-delays-discovery-launch-fourth-time-2102090/
February 28:https://www.hayadan.org.il/space-shuttle-program-completes-new-plan-for-next-launch-2802095/
That's all the articles, I would do all these in the link but I don't know how.
Do you write the link where it says website?
February 7: https://www.hayadan.org.il/discovery-lounch-delay-0702098/
February 18:https://www.hayadan.org.il/another-delay-for-disovery-1802095/
Pine
Oh, so in this case here are all the articles that were on the STS-119 mission:
January 10:https://www.hayadan.org.il/next-shuttle-mission-sts-119-1001097/
Pine
Oh, so in this case here are all the articles that were on the STS-119 mission:
January 10:https://www.hayadan.org.il/next-shuttle-mission-sts-119-1001097/
February 7: https://www.hayadan.org.il/discovery-lounch-delay-0702098/
February 18:https://www.hayadan.org.il/another-delay-for-disovery-1802095/
February 21:https://www.hayadan.org.il/nasa-delays-discovery-launch-fourth-time-2102090/
February 28:https://www.hayadan.org.il/space-shuttle-program-completes-new-plan-for-next-launch-2802095/
That's all the articles, I would do all these in the link but I don't know how.
Do you write the link where it says website?
Birch,
So I, and probably quite a few others, have to thank him. Because I had no idea what the reason was that the previous launches were rejected because I didn't follow up. On the contrary, the article was concise for readers like me who were interested in knowing about the latest failure discovered in the ferries, beyond the fact that the ferries are back in operation again.
Pine
OK, you know what, you're right, but still, I think that when Avi Blizovsky wrote the article itself, he thought to himself: "Oh, the article is too short, well, we'll repeat all the details we already said in the previous articles about the same mission, STS-119."
Birch,
What's marginal? The date and time paragraph of the launch? The reason for the launch (what are you going to do)? Maybe a paragraph of the reason for delaying the launch?
There are of course also 2 paragraphs why they decided to return the ferry to use... "definitely sounds unnecessary".
So they added another paragraph that added a human touch to the article by quoting the response of the shuttle launch manager. The only thing that may, and I say may, be unnecessary is the last line that indicates the transportation of the astronauts to the launch site. But I wouldn't say that the whole article is just smeared (especially for those readers like me who didn't closely follow the various postponement publications and the reasons for them).
what? You wanted to announce the launch of the ferry after all, but you didn't have enough information, so you just added unimportant details to make the article look not too short?