Space Forum / Space History / July 2005

Just for you, Bob.
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testing...

They should send the shuttle up unless there is a major malfunction or
serious damage.  Everyone secretly wants to see new tragedy film
footage anyway.  The last one was exciting, raining debris, etc.

Time to rebuild a pad for The Stick and SDV cargo carrier?:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1048

Robert Lusetich and Andrew McGarry, Shuttle Discovery is go despite red
faces over mishap, The Australian, Thursday July 14 2005, page 10.
The shuttle launch will mark the first manned space launch since the
Columbia disintegrated more than two years ago, killing all seven

As per the story on Spaceref.com, if a plan comes  into effect to start
retiring the Shuttle fleet in 2007, where will that leave the ISS in terms
of being able to complete assembly in 12 - 15 more Shuttle flights ??
Can more pieces of Station be integrated on Earth and launched ...

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Well, it wasn't the weather, but a failed H2 external tank sensor that
postponed Discovery's launch today. Apparently they got to the T-31 sec
mark. Damn, and I had a chance to watch it on cable today, too. (sigh)

I had the opportunity to meet the Red Rover a couple weeks ago at the
Planetary Society's Comet Bash in Glendora, CA. He was a true gentleman
and was very pleasant to talk with, unlike some other ex-astronauts I
have met recently.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-06-22-shriever-
death_x.htm
Jim Davis

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/33e
1eb9917af7519/86c8eff2e8ecdddb?q=Pioneer+Anomaly&rnu
m=1&hl=en#86c8eff2e8ecdddb
Yes E^2 = energy/volume = pressure
but what E?

Well, I just saw Pendragon Pictures direct-to-strobing DVD take on WOTW-
on the upside, it follows the book exactly.
On the downside, it is like something Ed Wood would do if he were given
the job of filming it.

I've been working on a book on US Bomber Projects for some years now. Up
until recently, that work was mostly in the form of gathering
information... design drawings and the like. As Aerospace Projects
Review is finally about to wrap up, I'll be devoting more effort to this

    A little while ago it struck me as a curious coincidence that
Star Trek's Enterprise was a starship of the Constitution class, when
the space shuttle Enterprise would have been intended to be named the
Constitution until Richard Hoagland's letter-writing campaign.  

So. The Fisher Space Pen.
The story is a classic one, and probably will last for decades - that
NASA spent $bignum dollars developing a pen that could work in all sorts
of environments... and the Russians used a pencil.