12 May 2011 - Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=37263)12 May 2011 - Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report
Read the status reports for Aquarius, Juno, GRAIL, and Mars Science Laboratory, which are all getting ready for launches in the coming months.


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[HaveBlue]

Thank you for the links. Are you an official spokesman or unofficial whistleblower for/of NASA? No info about you on your profile page, thanks button disabled here! fair enough, I guess you don't like nosy types, it's about the info not you personally right? I get it! Still, are you George H Diller?

It is good for this forum to have important links for certain NASA projects posted here. I am about to click on the link above, I see the mars rover pic, I hope tghis is not going to be an ady bassagio type thing where the human/animal hybrids are so obvious and plain to see!
I can't for the life of me see them. Any of them at all. Yet strangely my eyesight is good enough for a private pilots license with no glasses required!

[HaveBlue]

Is Vandenburg AFB used for secrecy or the more mundane reason that it is simply closer to where the machines are actually built so therefore alot cheaper to launch from there rather than ferry it all to KSC in Florida?

I recall how it costs a million U.S dollars to ferry the space shuttles from Edwards to KSC when they end up having to land there. Why so much?
Hoist it up onto the MDD (mate demate device) fuel up the NASA owned 747 and fly to Kennedy right? No wonder the govt wants private enterprise to be much more involved in space programs! Contractors would do it way cheaper! They tend not to like paying alot of people to stand around doing nothing for long periods of time!