Failed Space Launch
Mcdonald s hesitation has to do with the temperature.
Failed space launch. Jim chilton boeing s senior vice president for space and launch said the company will focus on finding the root cause of the failure but said we don t know why the timer misfired. Morton thiokol has recommended to nasa that no shuttle launch should launch when the temperature is below 53 fahrenheit. 11 upi an american astronaut and russian cosmonaut were forced to eject from an aborted launch to the international space station early thursday and make an emergency landing.
Shortly after launch there was an anomaly with the booster and the launch ascent was aborted resulting in a ballistic landing of the spacecraft according to a nasa statement.