Sentence examples for scrub the launch from inspiring English sources

In that piece I point out that NASA managers asked Thiokol engineers to first prove that the shuttle would blow up in order to scrub the launch.

A9 SCIENCE/HEALTH Sensor Problem Puzzles NASA NASA officials confessed that they are perplexed by the sensor problem that caused them to scrub the launch of the shuttle Discovery.

"We have had to scrub the launch for today due to a low level fuel cut-off problem," NASA spokesman George Diller said.

SpaceX is going to try to launch its CRS-6 International Space Station resupply mission again today at 4 10 PM ET, after having to scrub the launch yesterday due to adverse weather conditions.

The launch was originally slated for yesterday, but a combination of technical issues and weather conditions scrubbed the launch.

A more conservative person than Elon Musk might have delayed and then scrubbed the launch entirely when the winds didn't die down.

(Of course, for all I knew, they might have scrubbed the launch in the time I was in the elevator, but hey, you never know. So I ran).

PAGE 10 Shuttle Launching Postponed NASA scrubbed the launching of the Discovery minutes before liftoff because of threatening clouds.

Officials scrubbed the launching of an Air Force rocket that was to carry nearly a dozen tiny satellites late on Friday after low voltage was detected in on-board batteries.

The malfunctioning fuel sensor system that led officials to scrub the July 13 launching is only one of 2.5 million parts on the shuttle, most of them designed in the 1970's.

But SpaceX had to scrub the first test launches of its rocket, the Falcon 1, which is designed to loft small, satellite-sized payloads into orbit and constitutes a feasibility study for the future development of larger launchers for human cargoes.