Space Forum / Shuttle / February 2004

Go to this site
http://customwire.ap.org/specials/interactives/shuttle_package/
About 15 seconds in to the presentation, there is a photo of astronaut
Chawla. Is that an exposed breast that I see ??????

I was just reading http://space.com/news/okeefe_shuttle_040212.html
and it looks like they might miss the fall 2004 time frame and end up
launching in January 2005.
Considering the history of problems with January launches, does anyone

http://www.floridatoday.com/news/space/stories/2004a/021804crewescape.htm
No surprise there, but the article says shuttkles retired by 2010 at least for
manned operations.
how far along is nasa on continuing to use the shuttles in unmanned operations?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=931
That would leave just 5 years for whatr 25 t 30 flights to finish the station
before the US abandons it
Can we support that flight rate and what if the shuttles get grounded again?

I'm glad to see support growing for saving Hubble, but will
it be enough, and in time?
JazzMan

"Ron Dittemore, the space shuttle program manager who took the most
dramatic public fall, remains emotionally scarred one year later. He
left NASA and now holds a low-profile aerospace job in Utah."
"After repeatedly delaying previous shuttle launches for all sorts of

I was reading another post that indicated that the Shuttle
program is going to be ended in 6, maybe 7 years tops, and
it occurred to me to wonder, what will replace it? I've not
heard of any concrete programs to replace the Shuttle, and

I see the schedule has been changed a great deal in as far as orbiter
assignemtns go -
STS-114, 121, 115, 116 seen to alternate Atlantis then Discovery.
What about after that, STS-117, 118, 119, and 120?

http://www.utcfuelcells.com/space/spaceshuttle.shtm shows the UTC
(International Fuel Cells must have been 'bought out' at some stage
recently).
It states that the overhaul interval for the STS fuel cells is 2,600 hours

Satellite rockets proved costlier than first billed
BY JOHN KELLY FLORIDA TODAY 04/02/14
CAPE CANAVERAL -- If things turned out as the U.S. Air Force predicted in the
1980s, the 20-story Titan 4 rocket blasting off from Cape Canaveral this week

Does anybody have a good e-mail address for James Oberg.  The one on his
site does not seem to work.

The GAO report mentions planning for shuttle improvements until 2020.
Recently, the president of the USA did a campaign speech promising to go to
mars and retire shuttle by 2010.
Has NASA already begun to adjust all its plans for a hard retirement at 2010,

You can find quite a few images online at www.lyle.org/mars, as many of you
know. If you peruse the images you find that there are sets of images taken
through different filters - same view.  You can recompose these in Gimp
(www.gimp.org) and make a pseudo color image. The ...

Mr. Bush's plans for the retirement of the Shuttle, development of the so
called "Crew Exploration Vehicle", and manned missions to the Moon and Mars
just fail to excite me.  It all sounds very reminiscent of the demise of
Apollo-Saturn without which we would have had a manned lunar ...