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Wednesday, July 13, 2005


Damn. Are we ever going to fly again?
A faulty fuel sensor aboard the space shuttle Discovery on Wednesday forced NASA to delay its launch until at least Saturday.

Wednesday's attempt to launch, on the first day of a launch window that closes July 31, would have been the space shuttle program's first mission since the Columbia disaster 2 1/2 years ago.

"We would not in any conceivable way be ready to launch before Saturday," Wayne Hale, deputy shuttle manager, told reporters Wednesday afternoon.

A launch controller described it as "a low-level fuel sensor in the external fuel tank, one of a set of four -- two of which are needed to work."
I know they don't want to take any chances this time around, but I think there's something wrong with the math here. There are four sensors, two are required for launch, and one of them failed. Am I missing something?


Let's go already.




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