SpaceX Launch To International Space Station Delayed For Code Tweaks

SpaceX Launch To International Space Station Delayed For Code Tweaks 97

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @08:48AM from the ones-where-the-zeroes-were dept.

RogerRoast writes "The first private spaceship launch to the International Space Station has been delayed, possibly by at least a week, the vehicle's makers announced Monday. The commercial spaceflight company SpaceX was set to launch its Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket April 30 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida." The article quotes SpaceX lead Elon Musk's twittered explanation: "Am pushing launch back approx a week to do more testing on Dragon docking code. New date pending coordination with @NASA."

SpaceX Launch To International Space Station Delayed For Code Tweaks

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Re:Sure... (Score:5, Funny)

by azalin ( 67640 ) writes: on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @08:53AM (#39780777)

Maybe the just noted half the libraries were in metric

Where is their spirit of adventure? (Score:5, Funny)

by fuzzyfuzzyfungus ( 1223518 ) writes: on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @09:08AM (#39780863) Journal

Cowards!!! Launch early, launch often. (Or just give the coders the honor of being test pilots. That will make those code monkeys program it real good the first time...)

Re:Yikes! (Score:5, Funny)

by Like2Byte ( 542992 ) writes: <Like2Byte@@@yahoo...com> on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @09:08AM (#39780869) Homepage

heh.
Reminds me of that song, "99 instances of bugs in the code..."
99 instances of bugs in the code...
99 instances of bugs, ....
code one out, mark it out,
106 instances of bugs in the code...
106 instances of bugs in the code...
106 instances of bugs, ....

Did they try... (Score:2, Funny)

by Troyusrex ( 2446430 ) writes: on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @09:12AM (#39780903)

updating to the latest version and rebooting? That's what vendors always tell us to do the second anything doesn't work perfectly.

Re:Sure... (Score:4, Funny)

by K. S. Kyosuke ( 729550 ) writes: on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @09:44AM (#39781147)

Yes, but which half?
An imperial half.

Re:Better to fix it first (Score:5, Funny)

by jamesbulman ( 103594 ) writes: on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @09:55AM (#39781249) Homepage

I've checked in the fix...
//bugfix: Stop abort code messing up docking //if(doAbort) //{ // DoAbort(); //}

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by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @09:59AM (#39781283)

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Re:Sure... (Score:5, Funny)

Where is their spirit of adventure? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Yikes! (Score:5, Funny)

Did they try... (Score:2, Funny)

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Re:Better to fix it first (Score:5, Funny)

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