By: 009to090 On: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:50 am
The space shuttle Atlantis (L) sits on launch pad 39BA and the space shuttle Endeavour (R) sits on launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida April 17, 2009. Endeavour will be acting as a rescue vehicle if needed for the space shuttle Atlantis' mission to the Hubble Telescope, which is scheduled for lift off on May 12, 2009
By: KLook On: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:08 am
By: jrn8265 On: Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:35 pm
By: billlindley On: Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:06 pm
jrn8265 wrote:hmm, two shuttles ready to go....something other than "possible rescue mission" is up for a hubble mission. They don't put that cost out for that reason.....can we say.......Bruce Willis's Armageddon.....
By: Freddy On: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:43 pm
billlindley wrote:A cookie to whomever figures out why.....
By: Black_And_Blue On: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:59 pm
By: CapeCoaler On: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:23 pm
Because STS-125 is not flying to the ISS, its crew does not have the added protection of taking safe haven on the station should Atlantis be damaged during flight. To offset that risk, NASA decided to ready a second shuttle on the second pad as a rescue ship, to launch as needed.
By: billlindley On: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:54 pm
By: 009to090 On: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:38 am
Pucker factor
While details remain a tad murky, the tail damage was apparently caused during a touch-and-go runway approach by WhiteKnightTwo, which created a "pucker factor" in eyewitnesses watching the flight
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