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KathyT · 10-09-2008, 04:59 AM

One shuttle was intended to go do a service mission on the Hubble. That lauch was originally scheduled to launch on October 14th. Then, on Mon. 9/29 NASA delayed the planned Shuttle launch date of Oct. 14 due to a "Hubble Anomaly". Information on their website said “NASA will host a media teleconference at 6 p.m. EDT today, September 29, to discuss a significant Hubble Space Telescope anomaly that occurred this weekend affecting the storage and transmittal of science data to Earth. Fixing the problem will delay next month's space shuttle Atlantis' Hubble servicing mission.”

In plain words. Hubble broke. And they have to figure out when they can reschedule. I heard the news on the radio that day.

Either 1) there was nothing connected, the Hubble really broke and it just happened that way.
or 2) They had found out about the Federation of Light message for October 14th, and they decided it would just be good to avoid anything near that day, and they came up with an acceptable excuse to delay.
or 3) the Federation of Light has technology so advanced they were able to disable Hubble knowing it would delay the launch.

Anyone have ideas on this?

10-09-2008, 04:59 AM	#20
KathyT Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: America Posts: 427	Re: Nasa - why is shuttle placed on 'rescue' launch pad?? One shuttle was intended to go do a service mission on the Hubble. That lauch was originally scheduled to launch on October 14th. Then, on Mon. 9/29 NASA delayed the planned Shuttle launch date of Oct. 14 due to a "Hubble Anomaly". Information on their website said “NASA will host a media teleconference at 6 p.m. EDT today, September 29, to discuss a significant Hubble Space Telescope anomaly that occurred this weekend affecting the storage and transmittal of science data to Earth. Fixing the problem will delay next month's space shuttle Atlantis' Hubble servicing mission.” In plain words. Hubble broke. And they have to figure out when they can reschedule. I heard the news on the radio that day. Either 1) there was nothing connected, the Hubble really broke and it just happened that way. or 2) They had found out about the Federation of Light message for October 14th, and they decided it would just be good to avoid anything near that day, and they came up with an acceptable excuse to delay. or 3) the Federation of Light has technology so advanced they were able to disable Hubble knowing it would delay the launch. Anyone have ideas on this?