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T O P I C R E V I E WAntoni RIGOSpace Cover of the Week, Week 668 (September 18, 2022) Space Cover 668: Postponed launchesIn these days, with Artemis 1 mission still pending to flight, unfortunately we have heard several times some the sentences as "scrubbed launch," "postponed launch," "delayed launch."Please, click SCOTW 451 to see some scrubbed launches.Meanwhile NASA is checking SLS rocket and fixing the issues that motivated the postponed launch, I am wondering how many times space launches have been postponed and scheduled for a later date.For sure, there were many postponed launches, especially if manned missions, where safe is the most important, but I wanted to find the earliest cover with reference to a postponed launch.Above an Astro cover cancelled at Eglin AFB, FL on Oct 1, 1962 for the postponed launch of Walter Schirra spaceflight, what happened on Oct 3, 1962.Anyone has in their collections an earliest cover with the reference to a postponed launch? If so, be so nice to share it with others. Thanks.micropoozWow, great cover Antoni!I don’t have an earlier cover specifically mentioning a scrub. The closest I have is this cover, that just happened to be postmarked on one of John Glenn’s weather-scrub dates (February 14, 1962) at PAFB. The cover was actually created for an Atlas launch a couple days earlier.Antoni RIGODennis, thanks for your kind words.Actually your cover is more interesting than mine because the real history is behind it and comes to light only thanks to your deep knowledge for the history of MA-6 Glenn space mission.I remember your article in Astrophile about scrubbed Glenn launch dates with the help of our common friend Steve Durst.Finally, let me add this postcard also referred to John Glenn dates before his first launch in Feb 20, 1962.Below a postcard postmarked Feb 3, 1962 from USS Robert A. Owens. The text speaks for itself.Ken HavekotteThat's a wonderful postcard tie-in Antoni from a Naval vessel at sea returning to its port station. It certainly sounds as though they were going to be "on station support" for Glenn's orbital flight until it got postponed until mid-February.
Space Cover 668: Postponed launchesIn these days, with Artemis 1 mission still pending to flight, unfortunately we have heard several times some the sentences as "scrubbed launch," "postponed launch," "delayed launch."Please, click SCOTW 451 to see some scrubbed launches.Meanwhile NASA is checking SLS rocket and fixing the issues that motivated the postponed launch, I am wondering how many times space launches have been postponed and scheduled for a later date.For sure, there were many postponed launches, especially if manned missions, where safe is the most important, but I wanted to find the earliest cover with reference to a postponed launch.Above an Astro cover cancelled at Eglin AFB, FL on Oct 1, 1962 for the postponed launch of Walter Schirra spaceflight, what happened on Oct 3, 1962.Anyone has in their collections an earliest cover with the reference to a postponed launch? If so, be so nice to share it with others. Thanks.
In these days, with Artemis 1 mission still pending to flight, unfortunately we have heard several times some the sentences as "scrubbed launch," "postponed launch," "delayed launch."
Please, click SCOTW 451 to see some scrubbed launches.
Meanwhile NASA is checking SLS rocket and fixing the issues that motivated the postponed launch, I am wondering how many times space launches have been postponed and scheduled for a later date.
For sure, there were many postponed launches, especially if manned missions, where safe is the most important, but I wanted to find the earliest cover with reference to a postponed launch.
Above an Astro cover cancelled at Eglin AFB, FL on Oct 1, 1962 for the postponed launch of Walter Schirra spaceflight, what happened on Oct 3, 1962.
Anyone has in their collections an earliest cover with the reference to a postponed launch? If so, be so nice to share it with others. Thanks.
I don’t have an earlier cover specifically mentioning a scrub. The closest I have is this cover, that just happened to be postmarked on one of John Glenn’s weather-scrub dates (February 14, 1962) at PAFB. The cover was actually created for an Atlas launch a couple days earlier.
Actually your cover is more interesting than mine because the real history is behind it and comes to light only thanks to your deep knowledge for the history of MA-6 Glenn space mission.
I remember your article in Astrophile about scrubbed Glenn launch dates with the help of our common friend Steve Durst.
Finally, let me add this postcard also referred to John Glenn dates before his first launch in Feb 20, 1962.
Below a postcard postmarked Feb 3, 1962 from USS Robert A. Owens. The text speaks for itself.
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