Comments on: Scrubbed again

By: RandyC

RandyC — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:11:10 +0000

I was a grad student at Johns Hopkins and U of Maryland in the sciences from the mid-70′s through the early 80′s. I had some contact with APL, and even knew a couple of people affiliated there. Would have loved to work there, but it never materialized.

(At that time APL had some sort of affiliation with JHU. Still true?”

By: Tom G.

Tom G. — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:30:00 +0000

Thursday:
Sitting here at work again finger poised on the streaming video player software all ready to suck bandwidth and watch the launch!

By: Alisha D.

Alisha D. — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:24:04 +0000

I hope the spacecraft doesn’t disappear before it sees “The Face On Pluto”. Why doesn’t NASA just send a Class V probe?

By: Jack Foy

Jack Foy — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:56:55 +0000

Interesting coincidence; I grew up just across US 29 from APL in the eighties.

By: Wolverine

Wolverine — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:32:04 +0000

I’m convinced they keep moving the launch back just so I have to continually readjust the countdown clock on my blog. Conspiracy!

By: TheBlackCat

TheBlackCat — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:29:45 +0000

Wow, the Plutonians are really going out of their way to keep us from finding out about them.

By: Eric Ingram

Eric Ingram — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:19:45 +0000

woo! i get to skip class a *third* time.

By: JL

JL — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:03:15 +0000

It probably wouldn’t have gone anyway. Today’s winds are worse than yesterdays…I work at Patrick AFB just down the road from Cape Canaveral. We support the launches.

By: Bill Ruhsam

Bill Ruhsam — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:58:23 +0000

I appreciate the coverage! The updates from BABlog are more informative than almost every other source!

By: James (Doodler)

James (Doodler) — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:52:31 +0000

It was a pretty widespread outage, accompanied by some surges when the power would trip back on. My office next to the Laurel City Hall was left twiddling its thumbs from frequent power loss and surges till about 10am this morning. The surges blew (spectacularly) at least one uninterruptable power supply, causing our network admin to shut down the system as a precaution.

By: Daniel Nash

Daniel Nash — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:41:20 +0000

Take a look here: http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av010/051129windows.html

Short answer: they’re good if they launch in January.

By: MikeyP

MikeyP — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:30:37 +0000

I just hope they launch on time to get jupiter’s gravitational boost. What was the launch time frame in order to get it?