Orion flight test from Kennedy Space Center this morning

[weilke]

Just for any space-geeks already up this morning. United Launch Alliance / NASA is t-1hr for the launch of the Orion spacecraft flight-test on a Delta IV rocket from Kennedy space center.

So tune to your local NASA channel on cable/satellite.

The site for the program is here:

http://www.nasa.gov/orion/

The nasatv site to watch the launch is here:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

 

[Jim Logajan]

LOX vent valve froze up.

Although for the life of me I can't figure out what they are using smoked salmon for.

JIM

The NASA order was for 500 kilos of butter, 50 containers of lox.

 

[Jim Logajan]

The NASA order was for 500 kilos of butter, 50 containers of lox.

Bagels and lox with butter? Jim, ever been to NYC?

From the James Bond movie "You Only Live Twice":

Tanaka: This... is an order for naval stores. 500 kilos of butter, 50 containers of lox. What is lox?
James: Oh, it's an American name for smoked salmon. But it's also the technical name for liquid oxygen. Which makes rocket fuel.


(And no, I've never been to NYC - not even to visit the factories there that make salsa.)