Posted on 11/06/2022 8:05:02 PM PST by BenLurkin
A Northrop Grumman rocket carrying more than 4 tons of supplies for the International Space Station will have to wait at least one more day to launch after a fire alarm at its mission control center thwarted a liftoff early Sunday (Nov. 6).
The Antares rocket was about 10 minutes away from a planned liftoff at 5:50 a.m. EST (1050 GMT) from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, when Northrop Grumman called off the flight. A fire alarm at the company's control center in nearby Dulles, Virginia, forced a building evacuation, preventing launch controllers from going through with the launch.
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Very suspicious.
I thought Algore pulled the Earth fire alarm about 20 years ago.
Maybe that little brat Thunberg did it this time. I didn’t think she was tall enough to reach it though.
Fire alarm on Earth.
I must have slept through it. Was Earth evacuated?
“Was Earth evacuated?”
Yes, and you missed it! More stuff for us. ;-)
What crap. Wallops Island is adjacent to Chincoteague on the Alantic. “Nearby” Dulles, Va. is Dulles International Airport, mostly in Loudon County with a small portion in Western Fairfax County. Way West of DC. It’s like saying Virgina beach is nearby Richmond, it ain’t.
It’s at least a 3 1/2 hour drive, well over 200 miles from Dulles to Wallops. The control center a Dulles for a launch at Wallops Island is because there are no facilities at Wallops. Wallops is not a spaceport, it’s a facility for launching sounding rockets. Somebody’s boondoogle.
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