More shuttle shuffle

Shuttle launch unlikely in coming days: NASA. :

"NASA, which is keen to get its space program back on track after the 2003 Columbia disaster, suspended the launch after one of four of the low level sensors in the liquid hydrogen tank had a failed reading."

Nasa has invested much time, energy, finance and expertise into the shuttle programme. Better to be safe than sorry, better to get it right better to festine lente...and better to move forwards than backwards. Some view space things as a total waste of money in relative terms. It still lights people's hearts and souls and it still astounding what we can do and find out. But, if it goes wrong, it isn't justifiable in any sense and cannot be rationalised. I can understand the obsession and the pressure to get the thing launched and I am still sitting here on the edge of my seat...with my heart in my mouth and butterflies in my stomach. Maybe like people at the turn of the last century when people were trying to fly planes . But I'd rather the shuttle got there and back safely rather than it becoming this century's Zeppelin programme.