Ares 1-X Ready On Pad, Launch Set For 1200 GMT 260
DynaSoar writes "NASA's new Ares I-X rocket is undergoing final preparations for its planned launch test Tuesday, October 27. Launch time is scheduled for 8 AM EDT (1200 GMT). As of noon Monday it appeared that there was a 60% chance of showers and/or high altitude clouds interfering. However, the launch has a an eight hour window of opportunity through 2000 GMT, and would require only 10 minutes of clear skies within that time to fly. Of interest to engineering types, both those who favor the new vehicle's design and its critics, will be to see whether the predicted linear 'pogo stick' oscillation will occur, and whether the dampening design built into it prevents damaging and possibly destructive shaking. Extensive coverage is being presented by Space.com; for NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit nasa.gov/ntv." Update 15:37 GMT by timothy: The weather did not cooperate; today's planned launch has been scrubbed.
Vibrations (Score:2, Funny)
As long as they are good....
Query: are rockets spaceships and if so are they female like normal ships? They've always seemed a bit to... phallic and gaseous to be female.
Re:Vibrations (Score:2, Funny)
Not necessarily. Take Uranus. Please!
Re:Vibrations (Score:2, Funny)
So yes. Yes it is.
Re:Vibrations (Score:3, Funny)
Not necessarily. Take Uranus. Please!
Why, do you intend to penetrate Uranus with a rocket?
Re:I'm a rocket, man! (Score:3, Funny)
10 trillion of printed from nothing US $dollars
with
who just transfer the trillions to Europe
And I have to wonder: Don't those two issues cancel out?
Re:Vibrations (Score:3, Funny)
Tables say: Did you sanitize your input?
Re:Vibrations (Score:2, Funny)
Re:More NasaTV Feeds and launch data (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Awesome (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm a rocket, man! (Score:3, Funny)
Didn't work when the Russians had Salute's 5, 6, 7 and Mir or were you asleep during the last 50 years?
I haven't been alive for 50 years, you insensitive clod!
Re:Awesome (Score:3, Funny)
I'd like to discuss this more, but we're out of time, so we'll have to leave it there.
Re:Vibrations (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Solid Rocket Vibrations Are Not Pogo (Score:5, Funny)
I suspect that the term "blow up" would be just as apt, though a little less British in the degree of understatement.
Rocket engineers are fond of that form of understatement. I've also heard "unscheduled disassembly", and I'm particularly fond of "turbine-rich exhaust".