Discovery Delayed by 24 Hours by NASA Fault Check
Space Shuttle Discovery
Your ready for a big meeting and your lift doesn’t arrive, you just call a cab and away you go. Well, not for the Astronauts who are waiting to be blasted off at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida this week, as they suddenly get held up with a ‘technical’ hitch in the electronics.
There never seems to be a launch without a hitch, be it a fault with the aircraft or the weather conditions not being suitable.
And this weeks launch is not going to disappoint with the 24 hours delay so that NASA can investigate a problem which seems to be causing some concerns, yet they can not get to the bottom of ‘WHY’ it is happening.
So, what is it that is holding the big bird up from it’s final launch?
According to engineers from the Space Centre in Kennedy, there was a fault that kept coming up on the pre check which told them the back up engines were at fault – obviously, something pretty important when you consider how far they are going, right?
Absolutely, but when asked the big question after the announcement, Launch Director Michael Leinbach replied: “It’s another day in paradise.”
