To the disappointment of First Space Fan Barack Obama, NASA scrubbed the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour Friday afternoon. The 20-year-old spacecraft has some sort of electrical malfunction in the two heaters in auxiliary power unit 1. Or maybe it’s the carburetor.
The Endeavour was kind of jalopy to begin with, anyway. It was cobbled together out of spare parts from the 1984-model Discovery and 1985 Atlantis space shuttles.
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May 2, 2011 at 12:17 am
Update:
“Why It Scrubbed: NASA Engineers Troubleshoot Endeavour’s Electrical Problems,” George Musser, Scientific American
May 4, 2011 at 8:26 am
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