shuttle Discovery
 

Nasa Just wasted a couple million of your tax dollars.
The space shuttle Discovery was stoped from a launch becaise of one sencor, A fuel level sencer 1 of 4 sencors had a wrong reading on it and they stoped the launch. Idiots.
They realy thing that there going to find a point in time when nothing is wrong with the shuttle, Its made by humans, that point in time does not exist. Yes you do not launch if there is a problem with a system that may cause a problem with the shuttle, but this was one of 4 sencors that told how full the fuel tanks were, There Full!!!!! its sitting on the launch pad, puch the button. Again- Idiots.

Ron

I'm all for space exploration. I think it's great.

But I do not think that the STS is a viable system.

1. The more complicated a system is, and the more components it has, the greater the chance of errors.. There are over 700 components that are Criticality 1 meaning if they fail the vehicle and the crew will be lost. The solid rocket booster seals and the tiles are two of those.

2. During launch and re-entry the crew cannot be rescued.

Like Ron said...no system is perfect. And when you have a non-perfect system with no way to rescue the crew, you're gonna lose crews. We've already lost two crews. We will lose more. The odds are unavoidable.

I know zero about spaceships.I know about race cars-Fill er up with methanol till it`s overflowing and go.BUT.....

These folks have been screwing around with this thing for 2 1/2 years now.You`d think they`d have their shit wired by now.