Just in the first two weeks of the month, 13,000 flights were scrubbed — that alone was the biggest disruption to the air travel system since 9/11.
Instead, Jones was in Washington, D.C., working to secure a new launch date for the experiment after three balloon flights were scrubbed, victims of the 16-day government shutdown last October.
Jimmy Kimmel, who will host the awards show on Sept. 23, was a surprise co-host of the announcements; he came onstage in pajamas, a reference to the fact that he was filling in for the actor Nick Offerman, whose flight from New York was scrubbed on Wednesday night because of bad weather.
The launch was supposed to take place last year, with a November date for the flight, but it was scrubbed, reset and then scrubbed again with no firm timeline for a follow-up attempt.
But our planned flight to the South Pole was scrubbed several times when the weather turned against us.
Update: Today's launch was scrubbed due to bad weather.
However, if all four sensors in the bottom of the liquid hydrogen propellant fuel tank do not operate properly during fueling, the flight will be scrubbed.
And Philadelphia International Airport, which had accumulated 14 inches by the end of Wednesday, said there was a good chance a large chunk of its flights would be scrubbed Thursday.
Person: To begin, the whole flight was almost scrubbed, because on the afternoon before the event, wind picked up suddenly and caused the lift truck to bang against the aircraft.
By the time the storm started pummeling the region, hundreds of flights throughout the three major New York airports had been canceled, and nearly every domestic flight through Wednesday afternoon — thousands — had been scrubbed.
