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Nephi

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STS-128
« on: August 04, 2009, 06:30:34 PM »
Rollout today
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schmidtrock

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Re: STS-128
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2009, 07:03:33 PM »
Live on NASA tv right now. She's about halfway there.
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Nephi

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Re: STS-128
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2009, 02:12:55 PM »
Another superb view of the rollout :
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Re: STS-128
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2009, 08:29:23 PM »
Oh wow that is an awesome shot!
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Re: STS-128
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2009, 12:31:07 AM »
that has to be one of the nicest photos i have ever seen, great shot nephi!
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Re: STS-128
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2009, 05:08:01 PM »
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Re: STS-128
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2009, 11:35:52 PM »
Wow i love the light color on the Pad and the Lighting bolt is priceless.
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Re: STS-128
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2009, 08:11:46 AM »
Why Dexterous Manipulator is not used in this mission to move the ammonia tanks instead of an astronaut it weighs 1800 pounds it was designed to move heavy objects. If they won't use it why Canada built it.
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Re: STS-128
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2009, 02:28:22 AM »
As far as I know it is having problems and is still going through testing.
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Re: STS-128
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2009, 05:34:55 AM »
Quote from: spaceboy7441 on August 19, 2009, 02:28:22 AM
As far as I know it is having problems and is still going through testing.
So why it made it into orbit it seems that all the bugs should have been ironed out on the ground.
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Re: STS-128
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2009, 06:39:26 AM »
They always are checked a million times but you still will get problems on orbit sometimes. Otherwise what would the point of the OBSS/RPM scan be?
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Re: STS-128
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2009, 11:03:42 PM »
I understand that some problems couldn't be spotted on the ground but most problems can be solved on the ground such as software problems power system problems which dextre was grounded for according to NASA. And it been over a year sense it was put into orbit so they had plenty of time to solve these problems.  $200 Million dollars is a lot to be spent on a piece of equipment that the astronauts can not use that which it was designed for. 
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