I used to love watching shuttle launches, and they would sometimes delay missions a day or two due to weather, even if the rain/snow would be over in a few hours. Why couldn’t they just wait instead of delaying?
In: Planetary Science
To meet up with something in space takes either very good timing, or a shit ton of fuel. Rockets don’t have very much (if any) extra fuel, so they have to have good timing. Imagine you’re walking to the bus stop, and you just miss it. Do you wait for the next one, or sprint at the bus and hope you catch up before you get too tired?
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