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Originally Posted by BigV
has been postponed, due to weather. safe than sorry, 'suppose.
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The central weather issue was the fact that there were thunderstorm cells too close to the landing strip at KSC...which would be used in the case of a return-to-launch-site (RTLS) or abort-once-around (AOA) launch abort.
I've seen IMAX video of
what a shuttle pilot sees on final to the KSC runway. No way I'd want to try that in a thunderstorm.
In other STS news, we're currently go for a July 4 launch, having decided that the
foam crack discovered during/after yesterday's safing wasn't big enough to be a worry.
I really have to wonder would we be having all these ET foam problem if they hadn't stopped painting the ET to save weight. A nice thick coat of latex...