Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The much hyped space shuttle Discovery which was invented by NASA, its launch has been delayed again as the space institution wanted to review the tests of the hydrogen gas valves. The managers of the shuttle on Friday decided to give enough time to the engineers so that they could review and check the test data.
Therefore the managers decided to postpone the launch atleast till Feb 27 on Friday. There has been delay of the launch already twice. However the delay is not a much of concern as safety matters first more that any thing else. The team wanted to ensure that the three valves that control the flow of hydrogen, the lightest gas on earth into the external fuel tank; incase this mechanism is not proper then it could endanger the life of the seven men crew and the shuttle. This extra safety precaution has been taken because in the last space shuttle, a very small piece of the valve had cracked off.
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