Space Forum / Shuttle / December 2003

because????
Well, maybe cos Bushykins needs a diversion from his war mongering and his
transparent agenda for making sure oil supplies are kept cheap.

I have updated my website with a new video.
http://www.challengerdisaster.info
TV-3 was the closest broadcast TV tracking camera at the time of the STS
51-L launch.  Located southeast of launch pad 39B, Universal Camera Site 12

Today I was searching for a photo of a US flag on the Moon, and
stumbled across this:
http://www.weirdload.com/columbia-rant.html
(I found it to be an interesting read, although there are key points

.. belongs in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, not spread across the
earth as a debris field.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/994737.asp?0cv=TB10
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As a general statement I dislike cross posting
As a general statement I dislike cross posting, but I will for this
query since it allows me to look at several knowledgable people at once
in both the cellular and ems communities.

In a Dutch science quiz the following question is asked:
When will an astronaut in his spaceship outside the earth's atmosphere
begin to float?
A. When he's far enough away from earth's gravity

That's the title of my latest column at Tech Central Station, in which
I discuss why the economics of OSP make no sense.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/091903E.html

If the crew had survived, would we be flying today?  

from
"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23601-2003Nov30.html"
"Engineers have made scant progress in their struggle to develop a
repair technique for the exotic composite heat shielding called

What's happened to the special event broadcast from the Space Station?
It was supposed to be around the last this month ( I thought ) ...haven't heard
a "peep" out of them. Am I mistaken or has the date been changed?  
Been watching the ARRL bulletins but haven't heard a thing ...

The December 2003 National Geographic contains two excellent articles
pertinent to these newsgroups.  The first article takes a retrospective look
at the first one hundred years of flight and then looks forward to the
possibilities looming in the next one hundred years.  An ...