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XPav
09-10-2003, 10:57 AM
Oops. (http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=10299)
Woolen Horde
09-10-2003, 11:13 AM
Wow... there goes $200 million down the drain.
Lunch of Kong
09-10-2003, 11:18 AM
Another way to look at it is job security.
Jason Levine
09-10-2003, 11:50 AM
Another way to look at it is job security.

For the guy who dropped it? :)
Alan Dunkin
09-10-2003, 12:26 PM
Damn I can't even imagine what was going on there.

Okay we got it rotating.. rotating.. 5 degrees.. satellite slides right off... plop.

"Gee Bob, I don't think that's the horizontal position we were looking for."

--- Alan
Woolen Horde
09-10-2003, 12:42 PM
Another way to look at it is job security.

Jeez, it's not like Lockheed Martin needed to delay the project. The satellite wasn't even planned for orbit until 2008. Five years away. Gawd, remember when NASA could go from nowhere to the moon in less than 9 years?