Space Forum / Shuttle / January 2004

I'm looking for a specific better-quality picture of a
shuttle during
ascension, possibly crossing some barrier, no idea.
See picture in URL (could not post as attachment, but it's

It landed right here:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040104descentimages.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040104landingsite.html
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/031231gusev.html

I once had a brush with greatness
while empting the toilet from the
Shuttle Atlantis.
-Kim Keller-

Urgent release
Martian government on high state of alert after two major metropolitan areas
devastated over night. All government agencies on high state of alert. Armed
forces are ready. More as information becomes available.

I read about the wing sensors that would be installed before the
Return to Flight of the shuttle.
Not specificaly for the shuttle, but for any winged spacecraft:
Would it be possible to detect a wing impact in almost realtime, get

Photos of SpaceShipOne's Landing Mishap
are on the Space.com website.
URL:
http://www.space.com/news/ssone_mishap_031218.html

Given the most favorable case for survival, and assuming that enough
Challenger remains were or could have been immediately recovered by
search and rescue teams, for how long after the main blast could an
autopsy have precisely determined time of death?

Hey I want to just bring in a bit of what might be regarded as the silly
season here.
Can you make tea on the Shuttle in orbit? Ie how would you make an infusion
in zero g anyway? Centrifuge and heat???

OK its off topic, but its more on topic than the spam, so...
Anyone care to guess what has happened?
I reckon its either malfunctioned during re entry or it has fallen into a
deep hole somewhere. The problem is that the resolution of the surface is

Was doing a little research into how John Young manually handled the
increased sideslip, that the GPC software could not handle in STS-1.  What
do these guys eat for breakfast???  ;-)
Anyway, in my google searches I came up story about John Young and STS-1

I'm new to this group.
I'd like to point out an error in the January 2004 issue of Discover
Magazine (Vol, 25 No. 01) titled Columbia and the year of Flight. The
article says the last words radioed by Rick D. Husband was 'Roger, uh'