STS-127 will launch from Cape Canaveral in less than four hours.
The shuttle Endeavour will launch on an inclination of 51.6 degrees taking it over the Hibernia, Terra Nova and White Rose platforms.
Is our offshore oil safe from the possibility shuttle pieces will fall on top of them in some sort of fiery cataclysm?
Don’t laugh.
Only four short years ago, the Premier threw a very public and very ill-informed panic attack over rocket launches heading over the precious oil fields and the prospect one might drop and blow everything up.
It was one of the early dramas in what seems to have become a drama-filled administration.
Not all have been so preposterous or as laughable.
-srbp-
Weather Report Update: They scrubbed the launch due to bad weather.