Posted
3/20/2005 04:47:00 PM
by Douglas
We gonna fly that damn thing or
not.NASA space shuttle officials had hoped to roll Discovery out of its Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) and into the VAB next week, where its external tank and solid rocket boosters already stand assembled.
But in a status report released Friday, NASA officials said additional work was needed to address wiring issues in Discovery's payload bay and landing gear doors.
Shuttle officials now hope the orbiter will be ready to rollout of the OPF in early April.
Shuttle engineers apparently first spotted the wiring issue on Discovery's sister ship Endeavour. Fasteners were found to be chafing tubing around the wires, leading technicians to inspect Discovery's wiring as well.
That may be the first instance of the combination of the words "NASA Engineers" and "chafing tubes" that
didn't involve a hooker. Is NASA writing soft-core pr0n now?