Teacher in Space

[kilngirl]

Today at 4:30 aproximately, my time, the teacher in space program resumes with Idaho teacher, Barbara Morgan, set to blast off. She has waited a very long time for this day. There is an 80 % chance of favorable conditions for the launch and it appears all is favorable at the present time.

All eyes here are on the launch and praying all goes well with this teacher launch.

[alt_historian]

Originally Posted by kilngirl

Today at 4:30 aproximately, my time, the teacher in space program resumes with Idaho teacher, Barbara Morgan, set to blast off. She has waited a very long time for this day. There is an 80 % chance of favorable conditions for the launch and it appears all is favorable at the present time.

All eyes here are on the launch and praying all goes well with this teacher launch.

Cool.

But this is a real event. Should be in here, really.

I was surprised to hear about this yesterday. But then, I've lost touch with the news to some degree, recently...

[Berra]

Originally Posted by alt_historian

Cool.

But this is a real event. Should be in here, really.

I was surprised to hear about this yesterday. But then, I've lost touch with the news to some degree, recently...

No. Move it to the ASB-section. She has been dead since 1992. Google told me. This is some crazy NASA plot with zombies I tell you.

http://www.temple.edu/photo/photogra...ex/morgan.html

She died at 92. The right stuff?

[Max Sinister]

OK, so the POD is that she doesn't die.

[Berra]

Originally Posted by Max Sinister

OK, so the POD is that she doesn't die.

Or we could talk about the living one but what fun would that be?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Morgan

[kilngirl]

So this was a clean and excellent take off today. The Endeavour is now officially in orbit.

What would have happened if the Challenger hadn't blown up in 1986? Would our space program be farther ahead or about the same?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Further ahead. That hiatus in spaceflight really hurt, and imagine how much faster ISS assembly would go with another shuttle available.

[Archangel Michael]

Originally Posted by Amerigo Vespucci

Further ahead. That hiatus in spaceflight really hurt, and imagine how much faster ISS assembly would go with another shuttle available.

No--we'd still have the same number of shuttles. The Endeavour was built out of spare parts to replace the Challenger. Yeah, but everything would be two years ahead since that's about as long as it took for NASA to get back to space. But a Challenger-esque disaster is inevitable at some point.

[kilngirl]

Originally Posted by Archangel Michael

No--we'd still have the same number of shuttles. The Endeavour was built out of spare parts to replace the Challenger. Yeah, but everything would be two years ahead since that's about as long as it took for NASA to get back to space. But a Challenger-esque disaster is inevitable at some point.

No we still at this point would be down 1 shuttle. We lost another on reentry.

[alt_historian]

I thought I'd mixed it up with real news. But this is real.

SO: this should be in chat. It's NOT alt-history. Right? Well, OK, apart from the stuff about 'WI Challenger hadn't blown up'. But before that was chat.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Originally Posted by Archangel Michael

But a Challenger-esque disaster is inevitable at some point.

I disagree. Nothing is inevitable. It's extremely probable, but not inevitable. We may still have something akin to the Columbia disaster, though, which would prompt the construction of an alt-Endeavour, if, of course, the fact that the shuttle is more successful in TTL doesn't mean that more are constructed as a matter of course.