Space Forum / Shuttle / January 2004

As we approach the one-year anniversary...
http://space.balettie.com/WeCameHere.html
     - a tribute to the men and women of space exploration
Roger

What do flight controllers use for birth control?
Their personality.
Roger

In order to verify that the Castglance video makes no reference to a
"possible RTLS," one needs to review the entire soundtrack.  Even at the
end of that tape, the Castglance crew was still operating with the
complete understanding that a RTLS was actually "in progress."

Was the Columbia accident attributable to any management / cultural problems
within NASA? Do other large organisations have any lessons to learn from the
Columbia disaster and subsequent accident investigation board findings? Was
there any fundamental flaws in NASA's Safety Culture ...

What kind of pants did the Apollo 1 astronauts wear?
       Charred-Ash Jeans
What did the Apollo 1 astronauts and Burger King Whopper have in common?
       They are both flame broiled.

Glenn Mahone/Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington                     January 28, 2004
(Phone: 202/358-1898/1547)
DC Agle

Maybe it's because I don't understand the dynamics of newsgroups ( a
newbie), but I'm a little suprised I didn't get one comment, question or
heckle about anything on my website, most importantly my opinion that NASA
completely missed Rick Husband's comment of concern, 45 seconds ...

From Aviation Week Jan 12 2004:
"Secret Streaker?
On the morning of Jan. 7, an aircraft using call sign "Lockheed Test 2334"
told the FAA's Albuquerque Center it would be "going supersonic somewhere

msnbc.com (Oberg): "Shuttle manager reflects on mistakes"
In letter to employees, Hale reviews shortcomings and vision
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4086918
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst

Or so it seems, anyway.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/16hubblesm4/
"NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe told engineers and scientists today
that he has decided to cancel a planned shuttle mission in 2006 to

So NASA cancels a shuttle maintance mission and says it's cheaper to
(1) re-write the shuttle software program to work with three gyros
operational instead of four; then probably with two instead of three
(we don't even know this is POSSIBLE yet)

Howdy,
I realize that there's more to getting to LEO than meets the eye.  Can a few of
you better versed people explain why an idea along these lines won't work?
How about an expendable, solid fuel only, booster?  It seems to me an ICBM like

What do you make of this
(http://marsrover.jpl.nasa.gov 8:35 p.m. CDT 1/23/3004)
"NASA's Spirit rover did not go to sleep today even after ground controllers
sent commands twice for it to do so.

Just went through the return to flight task group report. There is very little
information on what is being done to the orbiters at the moment.
Does anyone know what is being done to each of the 3 orbiters at the moment ?
Is Discovery undergoing its major maintenance ? Or has work ...

Hi again,,,,
This morning, the Spirit rover  trouble-shooters say that the flash memory
has checked out OK, and they suspect a software problem.
so, does this in fact mean the other Rover will not be allowed to do what