Title: [GOD]Thunderstorms Threaten NASA Shuttle Launch Source:
abcnews.go.com URL Source:http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2143259 Published:Jul 1, 2006 Author:abcnews.go.com Post Date:2006-07-01 15:26:50 by TLBSHOW Keywords:None Views:4121 Comments:6
As the astronauts finished strapping into the space shuttle one by one, thunder clouds moved closer to the Kennedy Space Center and threatened to delay the 3:48 p.m. EDT blastoff of Discovery in what would be only the second launch since the Columbia disaster in 2003.
A last-minute technical problem popped up Saturday morning, with the failure of a heater used to keep propellant from freezing in a firing thruster. The thruster isn't used during launch, but it can control the shuttle's position in space and during a rendezvous with the international space station.
(Isa 29:6). Thunder was regarded as the voice of God: "God thundereth with the voice of his excellency" (Job 37:4), and God spoke to Jesus in the thunder (bronte, Jn 12:29).