![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
empallinfile this one under 'better safe than sorry'...
NASA MOVES SHUTTLE RETURN TO FLIGHT LATER INTO LAUNCH WINDOW
Allard Beutel/Jessica Rye
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)
07.15.05
RELEASE: 61-05
Space Shuttle managers now say the launch of NASA's Space Shuttle Return to Flight mission, STS-114, will take place no earlier than late next week. At 1 p.m. EDT today, managers officially stopped the current launch countdown for Space Shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Space Shuttle managers are optimistic that Discovery can lift off by July 31, the end of this launch window.
This weekend, managers and engineers will continue troubleshooting the problem with a liquid hydrogen low-level fuel sensor inside the External Tank. The sensor failed a routine prelaunch check during the launch countdown Wednesday, causing mission managers to postpone Discovery's first launch attempt. A dozen teams, with hundreds of engineers across the country, are working on the issue.
Once the problem is resolved and the countdown can be restarted, it will take about four days to launch. A countdown from this point will be a complete start over at T-43 (time minus 43) hours. Currently, there are no plans to roll Discovery back from the launch pad.
For now, Commander Eileen Collins and her six Discovery crew mates will stay at Kennedy Space Center while engineers work on the solution.
The next media update from Space Shuttle managers is planned for Monday. For any developments over the weekend, media can call for a recorded message at 321/867-2525.
file this one under 'only in texas...'...
Corpse Stalls Traffic on Texas Highway
AFP
July 13, 2005— A corpse caused a traffic jam on a Dallas, Texas highway after it fell off a pickup truck late Tuesday, local media reported.
The body was being transported to a Shreveport, Louisiana funeral home when it fell off the truck and landed in the fast lane, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.
Wrapped in a sheet and still strapped to a gurney, the body looked like a large white parcel from afar, Mary Ellen Douglas told the paper
and these can be filed under 'panda love"...
panda love take one
A few folks at the National Zoo suspected Mei Xiang was expecting ... then the miracle happened.
You are watching live images of Mei Xiang, a giant panda, and her newborn cub at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. The cub was born at 3:41 a.m. on Saturday, July 9. Mother and cub appear to be doing just fine. Zoo keepers were happy to see Mei Xiang cradling and cuddling her cub only two minutes after its birth.
Mei Xiang is one of two adult giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) that live at the National Zoo. Tian Tian, (pronounced t-YEN t-YEN) which means "more and more," is the male and the larger of the two. Mei Xiang, (pronounced may-SHONG) which means "beautiful fragrance," is the female and the youngest. During normal hours, you are most likely to see the bears eating bamboo or sleeping. But they are also notoriously playful, so you may also see them chase, bite and cuff one another.
The pandas are on loan to the zoo, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution, for ten years. During that time zoo scientists will study the bears as part of the international conservation effort to save this endangered species.
panda love take two
World's Oldest Panda Dies
AFP
July 13, 2005 — Joy at the birth of another pair of panda twins in China quickly turned to sorrow after the announcement that the world's oldest giant panda had died after suffering from eating difficulties.
Thirty-six-year old Mei Mei, equivalent in age to an 108-year-old human, died at a zoo in southern China's Guilin city after emergency attempts to save her failed, the Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.
"She had entertained numerous visitors from both home and abroad and remained the most popular animal in the zoo throughout her stay here," said zookeeper Chen Qian.
NASA MOVES SHUTTLE RETURN TO FLIGHT LATER INTO LAUNCH WINDOW
Allard Beutel/Jessica Rye
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)
07.15.05
RELEASE: 61-05
Space Shuttle managers now say the launch of NASA's Space Shuttle Return to Flight mission, STS-114, will take place no earlier than late next week. At 1 p.m. EDT today, managers officially stopped the current launch countdown for Space Shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Space Shuttle managers are optimistic that Discovery can lift off by July 31, the end of this launch window.
This weekend, managers and engineers will continue troubleshooting the problem with a liquid hydrogen low-level fuel sensor inside the External Tank. The sensor failed a routine prelaunch check during the launch countdown Wednesday, causing mission managers to postpone Discovery's first launch attempt. A dozen teams, with hundreds of engineers across the country, are working on the issue.
Once the problem is resolved and the countdown can be restarted, it will take about four days to launch. A countdown from this point will be a complete start over at T-43 (time minus 43) hours. Currently, there are no plans to roll Discovery back from the launch pad.
For now, Commander Eileen Collins and her six Discovery crew mates will stay at Kennedy Space Center while engineers work on the solution.
The next media update from Space Shuttle managers is planned for Monday. For any developments over the weekend, media can call for a recorded message at 321/867-2525.
file this one under 'only in texas...'...
Corpse Stalls Traffic on Texas Highway
AFP
July 13, 2005— A corpse caused a traffic jam on a Dallas, Texas highway after it fell off a pickup truck late Tuesday, local media reported.
The body was being transported to a Shreveport, Louisiana funeral home when it fell off the truck and landed in the fast lane, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.
Wrapped in a sheet and still strapped to a gurney, the body looked like a large white parcel from afar, Mary Ellen Douglas told the paper
and these can be filed under 'panda love"...
panda love take one
A few folks at the National Zoo suspected Mei Xiang was expecting ... then the miracle happened.
You are watching live images of Mei Xiang, a giant panda, and her newborn cub at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. The cub was born at 3:41 a.m. on Saturday, July 9. Mother and cub appear to be doing just fine. Zoo keepers were happy to see Mei Xiang cradling and cuddling her cub only two minutes after its birth.
Mei Xiang is one of two adult giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) that live at the National Zoo. Tian Tian, (pronounced t-YEN t-YEN) which means "more and more," is the male and the larger of the two. Mei Xiang, (pronounced may-SHONG) which means "beautiful fragrance," is the female and the youngest. During normal hours, you are most likely to see the bears eating bamboo or sleeping. But they are also notoriously playful, so you may also see them chase, bite and cuff one another.
The pandas are on loan to the zoo, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution, for ten years. During that time zoo scientists will study the bears as part of the international conservation effort to save this endangered species.
panda love take two
World's Oldest Panda Dies
AFP
July 13, 2005 — Joy at the birth of another pair of panda twins in China quickly turned to sorrow after the announcement that the world's oldest giant panda had died after suffering from eating difficulties.
Thirty-six-year old Mei Mei, equivalent in age to an 108-year-old human, died at a zoo in southern China's Guilin city after emergency attempts to save her failed, the Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.
"She had entertained numerous visitors from both home and abroad and remained the most popular animal in the zoo throughout her stay here," said zookeeper Chen Qian.
