Comments on: More cracks in foam on Shuttle tank http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/03/more-cracks-in-foam-on-shuttle-tank/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:05:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Jeff Hebert http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/03/more-cracks-in-foam-on-shuttle-tank/#comment-16792 Jeff Hebert Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:32:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/03/more-cracks-in-foam-on-shuttle-tank/#comment-16792 I laughed out loud at a headline about this on MSNBC just now. I have it on my blog as <a href="http://nerdcountry.blogspot.com/2006/07/real-trouble-at-nasa.html" rel="nofollow">"The Real Trouble at NASA".</a> For those who don't want to click through, the headline simply read: "Crack May Delay Shuttle" I can see how a bunch of toked-up crack-head astronauts might put a kink in the launch schedule, I'm just surpised they'd come right out and admit it like that. At least use that "foam" euphamism they've been throwing around, geez. I laughed out loud at a headline about this on MSNBC just now. I have it on my blog as “The Real Trouble at NASA”.

For those who don’t want to click through, the headline simply read:

“Crack May Delay Shuttle”

I can see how a bunch of toked-up crack-head astronauts might put a kink in the launch schedule, I’m just surpised they’d come right out and admit it like that. At least use that “foam” euphamism they’ve been throwing around, geez.

]]> By: Michelle Rochon http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/03/more-cracks-in-foam-on-shuttle-tank/#comment-16794 Michelle Rochon Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:33:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/03/more-cracks-in-foam-on-shuttle-tank/#comment-16794 Guess we just have to wait and see... Of course, any problem related to foam now is bound to freak every media up. Guess we just have to wait and see…

Of course, any problem related to foam now is bound to freak every media up.

]]> By: Henrik, Sweden http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/03/more-cracks-in-foam-on-shuttle-tank/#comment-16793 Henrik, Sweden Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:16:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/03/more-cracks-in-foam-on-shuttle-tank/#comment-16793 Will this lead to NASA scrubbing the mission even further? Seems to me that they have checked this spacecraft so thoroughly that it would make it the safest launch yet... There's always a risk in sending people into space using rockets, a risk we'll have to live with... I want to see the shuttle launch on Tuesday, enough stalling! :) Will this lead to NASA scrubbing the mission even further? Seems to me that they have checked this spacecraft so thoroughly that it would make it the safest launch yet… There’s always a risk in sending people into space using rockets, a risk we’ll have to live with…
I want to see the shuttle launch on Tuesday, enough stalling! :)

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