Afterscrubbing Endeavor ’s planned Friday launchfor 48 hours , NASA this weekend extended the delay indefinitely . The skillful news : the source of the previous electrical problem has been traced back to the avionics box in the shuttle ’s engine compartment . The bad word : they wo n’t be able to replace it until at least May 8th , and very probably later :
https://gizmodo.com/space-shuttle-endeavour-launch-scrubbed-for-at-least-48-5797081/
“ I ’m here to disappoint everybody by saying I ’m not going to tell you what the new launch date is because I have no idea , ” Mike Moses , president of NASA ’s Mission Management Team , told newsman after engineer make up one’s mind on a course of study of action . “ We have a lot to value , both the work to do , the R & R ( remotion and replacement ) , the retest that has to be done , how we exercise all that schedule in .
“ But we can secern you pretty much it ’s not going to be any earlier than the 8th . That does n’t have in mind we ’re going to go launching on the 8th ; that just means we bang properly now the 8th is our next available opening move . ”
All I know is the more times I invite people to Endeavor launch party with no launch , the fewer RSVPs I get . [ CBS ]
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