Shuttle Launch delayed yet again...

Weather Forecast Friday: 60 percent "Go"
Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:03:54 AM CDT

The shuttle weather team is calling for a 60 percent chance of acceptable conditions for space shuttle Discovery on Friday. They are watching for high winds in the wake of a cold front moving through Central Florida. Discovery is on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Friday's launch time is 3:04 p.m. EDT. There are no scheduled STS-133 news conferences on NASA Television today and no planned Space Shuttle Program Mission Management Team meetings today. The shuttle team will convene at 5 a.m. Friday to assess the weather before giving a “go" or "no-go” decision to fill Discovery’s external tank.

If Discovery launches Friday, it will dock with the International Space Station at 10:55 a.m. EST on Sunday, Nov. 7. The mission’s two spacewalks will occur on Tuesday Nov. 9 and Thursday Nov. 11. Undocking will occur at 4:21 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 14, and landing at Kennedy Space Center will take place at 9:16 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16.

Breaking: Another Delta aircraft searched for possible bomb

A Delta Airlines flight carrying 244 passengers from Amsterdam to Mumbai on Thursday night landed in emergency conditions at the airport in Mumbai due to an unidentified object in the plane’s cargo-hold.

The plane, which touched down about 11.20 pm IST, was being taken to an isolated bay for a thorough search, airport sources here said.

The information about the presence of the unidentified object in the cargo-hold was given by a Delta staffer in Amsterdam.

Shuttle Launch Attempt Delayed for Weather

Shuttle Launch Attempt Delayed for Weather
Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:08:24 AM CDT

Managers will delay Discovery’s launch for 24 hours due to weather. Mission managers will meet tomorrow at 5 a.m. to reevaluate the weather conditions. Friday’s launch attempt would be at 3:04 p.m. EDT.

Shuttle launch now questionable for Thursday

The Prelaunch Mission Management Team wants to give engineers more time to look deeply into two electrical issues from a main engine computer controller that cropped up this morning. Therefore, the launch of space shuttle Discovery on STS-133 has been delayed until at least Thursday. Mike Moses, chair of the MMT, said the problems are believed to be tied to a circuit breaker in the shuttle's cockpit.

Rather than rush the shuttle launch team through an analysis and launch cycle quickly, Moses said he opted to let the engineers work throughout the night on the issue without having to worry about an early morning tanking and Wednesday afternoon launch. The MMT will meet again Wednesday at 2 p.m. EDT and then decide whether to try to launch Thursday. A liftoff Thursday would be at 3:29 p.m.

Breaking: Suspicious package examined on Delta jet

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the FBI, the Transportation Security Administration, the Port of Portland and Delta Airlines are investigating what they say could be suspicious items found on a Tuesday Delta flight from Tokyo to Portland.

The FBI declined to identify the items or why agents considered them suspicious. Agents said the items were not explosives.

The flight arrived at Portland International Airport at about 8 a.m. The plane had 155 passengers and 10 crew on board.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are processing passengers and baggage through security. FBI Agents are interviewing passengers and crew and looking for possible evidence in the incident.

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