The winds must be in limits at that point to not risk damage to the vehicle during its most fragile point in the flight.
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That is just something we deal with in this business. We have to have good weather and if it's not good we will not launch. We needed good weather and we're just not going to get it this morning.Bruce Buckingham
The reasoning is, instead of taking it off-line for two years and spending a lot of money to return it to flight when it probably would fly only one time at the most, why spend that extra money, when you don't need to
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They're looking at all sorts of possibilities, and it's much too early to determine how this is all going to fall out. Our prime concern is the employees and their situation in the aftermath of the storm.
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We have ignition and liftoff of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on a decade long voyage to visit the planet Pluto and then beyond.
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Right now we have work to keep everybody busy and, in fact, we might see additional work coming to KSC.
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We anticipate we'll have a much better shot at getting off the ground, as far as weather is concerned.
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