Space Forum / Space Policy / December 2007

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as explained in my latest ghostNASA article:
http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/018srb5nonsense.html
the new 5-segments SRB has (at least) SIX BIG PROBLEMS and only ONE

Rep. Dave Weldon, Republican from Florida, has introduced legislation
that would keep the shuttle fleet flying past 2010 until such time as
the Orion space craft is operational. The legislation would also
allocate money to pay 919 million dollars for the return to flight of

I have a friend who lives in Florida, she has a son who is 12 and very
much interested in NASA/Space Shuttle & Space in general.  What would
you recommend to him to read?
This is what I've read and suggested:

"The space shuttle fleet is grounded until technicians
find and fix a vexing problem with engine cutoff (ECO)
sensors--a component that NASA now realizes has
likely never worked throughout the 26-year history of

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BreakingNews: Space.com and uplink.space.com HACKED
http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts/015hackedspace.html
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21 MONTHS ago I've published the article "Great part of the VSE moon
missions may fail":
http://www.gaetanomarano.it/articles/004.html

Song of War
OHHHHHH OOOOOOOOOOH OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OHHHHHHHH
OMMMMMMM ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh
We Cannot handle that, "Texas AirBourne"

See:
http://aimpoints.hq.af.mil/display.cfm?id=23118

See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/17/seti_brains_resign_over_active_messages/

During a recent press conference on the progress of NASA's program to
return people to the Moon, the subject of how to land the Orion space
craft arose in the course of questioning. Will the Orion land on land
or on water?

Senate Bill 1959, "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown
Terrorism Prevention Act" will Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs,
Books and Free Speech Across America, by Mike Adams:
http://www.newstarget.com/z022308.html

Barack Obama wants to slash funding for the NASA program to develop a
replacement for the space shuttle that will not only fly to low Earth
orbit, but also beyond to the Moon and Mars. He is doing this "for the
children" as a means to pay for an education initiative. Whenever a

Sometime in the fall of 2010 the space shuttle will launch on its last
mission. In the early Spring of 2015, barring unforeseen delays, the
Orion space craft will become operational, available to take crews and
supplies to the International Space Station. This constitutes a gap of

In Arthur Clarke's 1950 non-fiction book from Temple Press,
"Interplanetary Flight; an introduction to astronautics" the author
concludes in the chapter on rocket acceleration that if a way could be
found to accelerate all atoms equally the problem of acceleration