Space Forum / Shuttle / October 2003

it would save lives, make livuing easier, save energy, and who knows more hours
of daylight might help depression thats so common in the winter.
Anyone ever think about putting some solar reflectors in orbit to increase the
number of hours of daylight in the winter?

Has anybody worked up a rough 'table of contents' to the different parts of
the CAIB new volumes, keyed to the file names, or do we all just wander
through them blindly seeking items of interest?

From <nasawatch.com/spaceref.com>
Comments first.  The following information from the letter is new:
"At this time, NASA does not plan to select a team to develop and
build an OSP before August 2004. In addition, the Administration is

Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington                      October 27, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1600)
NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-109

After I got off the computer I asked Mike to get Savannah dressed for bed
and finished getting the last minute items I needed to take with me to the
birth center.
Contractions were still coming at regular intervals somehwere between 3.5

I was browsing some rollout pictures of Soyuz TMA-3, and I saw this:
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp8/031016rollout/09.html
Take a look at that picture. There is a Buran shuttle in the background.
Does anyone know whether that is one of the real Burans, or some mock-up?

Which operating system/systems is currently being used in spacecrafts?  Was
FlightLinux implemented as the standard?  Any information you can provide
would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Anyone else pissed that there's no link to easily download each
individual Volume as one huge file?  I've got a 2 Mbps DSL connection at
work and I'd like to take a little better advantage of it!
Maybe some enterprising geek (OM?) could make .torrent files out of

Hey folks,
I read the article making the rounds about the $.49-at-Home Depot foam
paintbrush that it being considered for a tile repair tool. This would
be cool, rather than spending time and thousands of $$$ developing

They didn't do a damn thing, after all.  
Or maybe you peoples know something I don't.  Educate me.
Ken

Marta Metelko
Headquarters, Washington                 October 15, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1642)
John Ira Petty

I was doing some reading on the 1989 (March 13th, fwiw) geomagnetic
storm, and got pointed at an article in the RISKS digest -
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=12495861009.13.NEUMANN%40KL.SRI.COM
if anyone wants to read it - copied from /Radio Communication/.

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