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Podcast: Today In Space
Episode: TIS#008 12/04/14 ORION Test Flight (Scrubbed 1st Day)
Description: EXPLICIT MATERIAL Today, the Orion Test Flight attempted to launch and faced several challenges during it's launch window and had to scrub the launch for 24 hours. Â Alex goes over the first (scrubbed) launch of the Orion Spacecraft from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Â He goes over the incidents that caused the delay. ("Higher-than-expected" winds, another boat, and "sticky" Hydrogen Valves) He tells the story of the "Four-Inch Launch" of the Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1) ...and gets a little too excitable about the boat that entered "re...