Space Forum / Shuttle / February 2004

Did they get a good look at the outside of the station? Find any damage?
It appears one suits subliminatior failed do they have spares?

How much cheaper would it be to send a man to Mars with no option to return?
I'm sure you would be able to get an aging/mad/fed up Professor somewhere to
volunteer. Send him in a capsule with 2 weeks supply of food and some
equipment for experiments.

6 Reported Dead After Blast At India's Space Center
POSTED: 11:34 am EST February 23, 2004
MADRAS, India -- An explosion set off a fire today at India's main
space center, killing at least six people, police said.

shuttle C dreaming
http://www.slepsummit.com/IIStrategy.pdf
Read down to page 17 through 20 and you can see shuttle c dreaming
again.

At the point where the fuel and oxidizer actually enter the combustion
chamber are they still liquids or have they changed into a gaseous state?
I just realized I never knew the answer to that.  My guess is that
they're still liquid since transition to a gas would entail boiling ...

Charges Dropped Against Student Accused Of Stealing Shuttle Debris
SFA Student Completed Lenient Probation Sentence
POSTED: 1:27 pm CST February 23, 2004
HOUSTON -- A Stephen F. Austin State University student accused of

another apollo style command module big sized......
bleah.

Russia to build new spacecraft
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Posted: 8:23 AM EST (1323 GMT)
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Russian engineers have begun design work on a
new spacecraft that would be twice as big and spacious as the existing

The January/February 2004 issue of The Atlantic shows that sci.space.*
denizens aren't the only ones who payed attention to the William
Langewiesche article in the November issue ("Columbia's Last Flight).
The first 3 letters to the editor are particularly interesting

The delay in return-to-flight from Sep 04 to Mar 05 was entirely
unexpected. But why the shift from Atlantis to Discovery?
Brian

Do any of you guys hang out at the Space.com messageboards?
Its pretty active, but I was wondering which has the larger community or is
their a larger one?
Cheers,

I've had a question about Columbia's tail for a while now but never got
around to asking.  Does anyone know why the very top of Columbia's tail was
black but none of the other shuttles had the black tail?

Here is a scary thought:
What if the Shuttle was canceled and the last HSF was Apollo-Soyuz?
With out HSF would NASA still be here today?
(If NASA still existed w/o HSF, I would imagine that its budget would

In this photograph from the north, which post-explosion SRB contrail
appears to have the greater altitude?
http://rjsullivan.com/chllngr/Five.html
What light does this photo shed on Jon Berndt's repeated and now

The Bush administration has used the Columbia Shuttle disaster of last
year as an excuse to drastically curtail and undermine all future
Shuttle programs.  
One of the casualties of this very ill advised policy is the Hubble