Author Topic: LIVE: STS-124: Launch Day / Flight Day 1 - May 31 (Read 159556 times)

Ford Mustang · « **Reply #600 on:** 05/31/2008 10:24 pm »

Irene asking about losing the second gimbal string on the L OMS Engine.

Cain: The engineering team has a lot of work to do to figure out what happened. There is a primary and secondary string. The worst case is loss of redundancy, and will not have a hit to the mission.

kneecaps · « **Reply #601 on:** 05/31/2008 10:26 pm »

Quote from: nathan.moeller on 05/31/2008 10:23 pm

Here come the questions...brace yourselves.

No clangers so far

rdale · « **Reply #602 on:** 05/31/2008 10:26 pm »

Per scanner traffic - both nose cones have been spotter by SRB recovery ships.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #603 on:** 05/31/2008 10:26 pm »

Thanks for the video, Ford. I missed that event. Looked like three pieces to me. Two tiny and one large. Question about the Soyuz situation. No impact to STS-124.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #604 on:** 05/31/2008 10:27 pm »

Looking for a resolution to the Soyuz situation in July or August.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #605 on:** 05/31/2008 10:29 pm »

Foam question from FOX. Decent. Gerst confirming what I said earlier...late in ascent and lightweight so no problem, but will be checked out.

Justin Space · « **Reply #606 on:** 05/31/2008 10:29 pm »

Chris called it right. Late in the ascent, which is why the debris is not classed as a concern.

elmarko · « **Reply #607 on:** 05/31/2008 10:29 pm »

By the way, I don't think it's considered stupid to ask a question about the foam debris. Case in point, the guy from Fox who has just asked about it. He directly asked why NASA wasn't bothered about, rather than be all sensationalist about it.

I think that's a responsible piece of questioning, to be honest.

ntschke · « **Reply #608 on:** 05/31/2008 10:29 pm »

Quote from: Ford Mustang on 05/31/2008 10:14 pm

Short video in this post. Best I could do without ruining quality.

Excellent video.

#1) It's ONE piece of debris, the piece relected on the underside of discovery is the shadow of the real piece which

#2)didn't come anywhere close to touching anything

#3) Too high up (not enough force) to do any damage either way.

The big networks will milk this all mission...just like they did last year when the "huge hole" at the joint of 2 tiles turned out to be a non-factor after it landed safely.

Once this is figured out, the broken toilet will be back on the front page.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #609 on:** 05/31/2008 10:31 pm »

Here's Harwood

He's spiffy today! He wants to know about Gerst's confidence in the upgrades after the foam liberation. Gerst talking about the liberations and how they're no issue, as well as foam facts discussion and where they'll go from here.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #610 on:** 05/31/2008 10:32 pm »

Lots of foam questions. Not too bad though. Just wanting facts instead of fishing for a bad angle.

Oersted · « **Reply #611 on:** 05/31/2008 10:33 pm »

Good point in one of the answers: the foam that came off the orbiter didn't break up after impact, but flew on in one piece, so it must have been a very low-energy event.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #612 on:** 05/31/2008 10:35 pm »

Quote from: ntschke on 05/31/2008 10:29 pm

Excellent video.

#1) It's ONE piece of debris, the piece relected on the underside of discovery is the shadow of the real piece which

#2)didn't come anywhere close to touching anything

#3) Too high up (not enough force) to do any damage either way.

The big networks will milk this all mission...just like they did last year when the "huge hole" at the joint of 2 tiles turned out to be a non-factor after it landed safely.

Once this is figured out, the broken toilet will be back on the front page.

I slowed down the video of the debris flying under the wing and I clearly see three pieces. Two tiny pieces to the left and one to the right.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #613 on:** 05/31/2008 10:36 pm »

Gerst wanting people to hold thoughts and questions until they get the ET photos and other data back.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #614 on:** 05/31/2008 10:36 pm »

You can tell Griff is getting annoyed. Head in hand and speaking in a low voice

Austin · « **Reply #615 on:** 05/31/2008 10:37 pm »

For the love of God...how many times does Gerstenmaier have to answer the same questions regarding foam loss? I'll bet Gerstenmaier, Leinbach, Cain and Griffin go out for a stiff drink following these press conferences. Sheez.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #616 on:** 05/31/2008 10:38 pm »

Jay Barbree asking about the Shuttle-to-Constellation gap. Griff basically saying what most know...the longer we fly shuttly, the longer we have to wait for Constellation.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #617 on:** 05/31/2008 10:39 pm »

Quote from: Austin on 05/31/2008 10:37 pm

For the love of God...how many times does Gerstenmaier have to answer the same questions regarding foam loss? I'll bet Gerstenmaier, Leinbach, Cain and Griffin go out for a stiff drink following these press conferences. Sheez.

Happens on every mission. Most reporters want the bad. It'll happen until the end of the shuttle program.

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #618 on:** 05/31/2008 10:40 pm »

Griff saying that these questions are speculative and difficult and it's not something they study. He says they have better things to do. LOL!

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #619 on:** 05/31/2008 10:40 pm »

I think Griff just put Jay in his place with that one.