NASA Discovery launch delayed twice by Zivka Deleva

It is so sad when the country that had the first man's step on the Moon back in 1969, today struggles with launching problems and goes to big transformation. As the United States of America are trying to recover from the last big economical recession, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's activities are being frozen and no one knows when things are going to get better. The new thing these days is that after the first launching delay from November 5 for space shuttle Discovery, now there comes another one. No, before Christmas time there is not going to be a shuttle launch. The first time the launch was delayed was because of some unrelated cracks that were fou! nd on the fuel tank. Before sending it to the International Space Station, NASA scientists want to be sure that they have done everything as they should and not embarrass themselves once again. The mission is about to last some 11 days and the management team final opinion is that if by the end of the year Discovery doesn't fly, it will be grounded until February. But, NASA officials aren't so worried about the date, the most important is to get to know the real problem. According to them the problems with the shuttle aren't found in the basic design, but a matter of case. As John Shannon, the Space Shuttle program manager says, it will take some time for the experts to figure out where actually the problem is. "We have an unknown here – how did something get through our process to allow a crack, and do we have a susceptibility to have another one of those conditions?" - Shannon asked himself. Not only the cracks but the bad weather as well were big problems for! the launching delay. I wish bigger luck to scientists on the! ir third try, or on their third luck.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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