Friday, August 03, 2007

Awwww Crap!

I knew it! Endeavour will not leave the surly bonds of earth until at least Wednesday. That's right, there is a launch delay. Engineers do not have enough time to prep the vehicle for launch due to severe weather that plagued the Cape and due to an unexpected faulty valve. Therefore a one day launch slip was implemented. What does this mean for me...well, it means i get to replan the entire mission. It's not as easy as just sliding all the activities to the left by 26 minutes. There is quite a bit of work to be done. Definitely not something that i wanted to deal with...but it seems inevitable in this business. Before i can begin my replanning activities i need information from another group. As of 6:30pm tonight, that information was not available. I'll check again in the morning and periodically throughout the weekend. Once i get that information i can start updating my products (which will probably take me a day to a day and a half to complete). There are other people that need information from me so i'll try to expedite that once i get it.

Anyway...launch is now scheduled for wednesday and we still have that Phoenix mission to contend with. hopefully that will launch tomorrow morning. I think i'm going to watch "Bourne Supremacy" to get ready for "Bourne Ultimatum".

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