NASA to launch Ares in 5mins!

[Russian]

Challenger was a loss due to weather...O-rings on the SRB's shrunk.

Weather you say? Not according to official investigation. Cause / factor.

[Nilsen]

That big rocket even caught my missus eyes. Wonder why... she has never tanken an interest in space before 

[VonMessa]

Challenger was a loss due to weather...O-rings on the SRB's shrunk.

My father works for a company that makes the O-Rings in question.  N.A.S.A cheaped out for a while and used a different vendor.  

After Challenger, they came back to my father's company  

[Dragon]

Going to try again this morning, looks like @ 30 min from now.

[caldera]

My father works for a company that makes the O-Rings in question.  N.A.S.A cheaped out for a while and used a different vendor.  

After Challenger, they came back to my father's company  

IIRC, NASA was advised against launching in low temperatures (by either the o ring mfg. or company that made boosters, i forget) and they went ahead anyway.

[VonMessa]

It was by the O-ring company.

They knew they made a lesser grade O-ring than GreenTweede did   

[Dragon]

8 min till launch 

[Dragon]

3 min till launch 

[eagl]

It didn't blow up.  I feel cheated somehow.

[Die Hard]

Awesome!

[Strip]

It was by the O-ring company.

They knew they made a lesser grade O-ring than GreenTweede did   

The grade of the O-ring was never in question, the operation limits for the O-ring were exceeded.

Also, engineers at the manufacture of the booster initially called for a scrub due to weather. They were overridden by management at Morton Thiokol and non-engineering personell made the final call. I have read the crash investigation reports for both Shuttle diasters. They had multiple issues capable of bringing the space craft down in a variety of ways.

The booster was just the first one to fail,and many years later the foam, ironically both were well known issues before the diasters......

Strip

[VonMessa]

The grade of the O-ring was never in question, the operation limits for the O-ring were exceeded.

Also, engineers at the manufacture of the booster initially called for a scrub due to weather. They were overridden by management at Morton Thiokol and non-engineering personell made the final call. I have read the crash investigation reports for both Shuttle diasters. They had multiple issues capable of bringing the space craft down in a variety of ways.

The booster was just the first one to fail,and many years later the foam, ironically both were well known issues before the diasters......

Strip

Ahh, then the poor working stiffs were misinformed (but still relieved) that it wasn't their fault.

[trigger2]

You think the press will be any kinder if (when) it blows up on a clear day?

Yes...

Which sounds better?
"Ares rocket explodes due to NASAs neglegence"

Or.

"Experimental Ares Rocket explodes"

The press is an eating machine, it'll dig and dig and dig, you just gotta keep feeding it little crumbs to keep it satisfied. If you don't, they'll screw you over. The press isn't into reporting "the truth", rather ratings and money, and unfortunatly, bad news sells. I've been on the recieving end of the media, it isn't pretty.