Space Forum / Space Policy / July 2005

Okay. The first few STS flights featured a white ET. Presumably it was
painted in some way. After a while this disappeared, presumably because
the paint was expensive and 'heavy'.
Question. If they started to paint the ET again, and took a tiny

It's just that the payload isn't strapped to the side of them where it
will get smacked, or blowtorched. Except for the shuttle, of course. As
long as rockets are used to get into space, we should expect them to
behave like rockets, and shed stuff, intentionally and ...

I revised this a couple of days ago, from something  I wrote a while
back...  How sad, that in just the last day, another setback...
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It's exhilirating that the shuttle has returned to orbit, but those of

The EPA-foam issue has cropped up again on talk radio. (sigh) Let me
know if I'm close to the following facts here.
0) At some time in the 1990s EPA policy called for the end of the use of
freon in processes that affected the ET foam insulation.

Dear,
can I join ASPS as a researcher with some ideas?

You just have to laugh, or cry, concerning NASA's current Shuttle
situation. So they have spent two and a half years, and countless
billions, fixing these problems, where from the public point of view
they are now back to square one.

¶Astronauts have lost as much as 60% of muscle and bone mass by extended
stays in space even with exercise. So what would happen if you just let the
body totally adjust to space for several years? No doubt that you could
never return to gravity, but so what. Living in spaced for ...

I think I remember reading that Russia was hard pressed to meet the ISS
resupply requirements, and that the Shuttle was returning to flight just in
time.  Until the last resupply by Soyuz, the ISS crew was on limited food
rations, weren't they?

NASA's rebuttal cancelled
In early November 2002 NASA announced that it was cancelling
publication of a manuscript by Jim Oberg that was intended to refute
the claims that the Moon landings were a hoax. NASA said that this

A little over a year ago K2 asked this group a series of questions
about the future of space tourism (Rutan's Spaceship One had just
made its first flight higher than 100 km). Some of the questions
were about longer term predictions but the first question was about

I have been thinking a bit about how to make kitset habitat modules
requiring minimal payload size and orbital assembly.
One thought that occurred is that it is quite straight forward to
construct a telescoping pressure vessel much like a portable radio

The christian plot to destroy public tv science programming and kill
interest in science moving along well. They are using something called EAS
(emergency alert system) to do it. This is how it works.
You are totally engrossed in a show like Nova, Nature or other interesting

It is a bit of a dream of mine to build a small semi self sufficient
space station in LEO, (with a large engineering workshop of course), and
set up as a developer and tester of space based infrastructure as
required for what would eventually pass as the space handy person

Hey, how about that -- I remember people saying years ago that NASA
should sponsor a contest to develop a better space glove, as existing
ones tend to inflate like a balloon, making EVA work very difficult and
tiring.

Reed Snellenberger <rsnellenberger@houston.rr.com> wrote: