-----Original Message-----
From: signatures@mindspring.com <signatures@mindspring.com>
To: signatures@mindspring.com <signatures@mindspring.com>
Date: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:17 PM
Subject: S3 - STS-92 Launch Status, 10/9/00
Rats!! As you probably know, our Space Shuttle launch got delayed again. This time everything was working just fine on the vehicle, but weather got in the way. High winds at the launch pad prevented some of the necessary pre-launch operations.
Launch is now scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 10 at 7:40 p.m. EDT. Hang in there!!-----Original Message-----
From: signatures@mindspring.com [mailto:signatures@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 2:48 PM
To: signatures@mindspring.com
Subject: S3 - 10/6 Launch Scrubbed
Good afternoon Space Fans,
As you may or may not have heard, NASA managers have delayed the launch of "our" Space Shuttle mission STS-92, to no earlier than Monday, Oct. 9 at 8:05 p.m. EDT.
Aside from evaluating the potential bolt problem that we mentioned in our earlier email, workers will now replace a suspect "pogo suppression valve" in Discovery's aft engine compartment. The valve, which exhibited "sluggish" characteristics during a countdown test on Thursday, Oct. 4, will be replaced and tested over the weekend.
This is not good news for the crew (those poor guys and gal will continue to be stuck in quarantine all weekend), but it may be good news for you folks. It will give you more time to prepare student activities for launch and during the mission. And I've also been getting contacted by a whole bunch of you who are having last-minute problems figuring out how to record the launch. Well, this delay might give you more time to work out better arrangements than any I was able to suggest for you. There's always a "silver lining" somewhere, right?
So we'll keep our fingers crossed for Monday. Poor Mission Specialist Michael Lopez-Alegria. This is his second Space Shuttle mission. His first mission, STS-73 back in 1995, holds a record as having the second longest amount of delays and launch scrubs of any Space Shuttle mission. If his current mission doesn't go soon, this poor fellow will probably start thinking he is jinxed. So keep your fingers crossed for NASA and especially for Mike LA!!!