Space Forum / Shuttle / February 2004

Aviation Week & Space Technology, in their February 2, 2004 edition, listed
their "laurel" awards for 2003.
One of the awards went to the approximately 25,000 local, state and federal
workers and individual volunteers who participated in the search and recovery

I'm getting flooded by all the alphabet soup on this newsgroup, and I'm
not exactly a newbie.  I did work on Gemini and Apollo and can figure
out obvious stuff like SSME but there is still a lot of alphabet lingo
that goes over my head.  Is there a FAQ that translates all this

You need a velocity of 28.000kmph
and the maximum-speed ever demonstrated
by a man-made object of at least one kilogram
is much smaller,...SO...

Can anyone help with a Chemistry question? I understand that the Shuttle
engines burn hydrogen/oxygen in a ratio of 3/1. What is the equation for
this reaction? I teach high school chemistry and quote the equation 2H2 +
O2 --> 2H2O. e.g ratio of 2/1. I assume the 3/1 ratio means ...

If a soyuz was taken to ISS and docked there would the 6 month life expectancy
still apply. Transported by shuttle?

How much in percentage terms of Columbia has been recovered?
The last photo I saw of the recovered wreckage suggests a low figure.
Gareth

Don't laugh yet ;-)
I'm not suggesting taking pictures of the Shuttle with Hubble because
it's a 2.4 meter telescope!
But, there must be star tracking equipement and such without much

See florida today. Mike foale says astronats woulkd rather use soyuz.
Me thinks that nasa management has NEW saftey numbers not released yet that
call for another accident soon. sounds like they are getting cionvinced it cant
fly safely.

For those who want to watch tonight's launch of the AMC-10 satellite,
you can just open Windows Media Player and type in the following URL:
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia-live/gems/5648/300_gems-ils020504_040126.asx
This doesn't require subscribing to spaceflightnow.com or dealing ...

Michael Cabbage interviewed Linda Ham about her life this last year:
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.ham01feb01,0,566954.story?coll=ba
l-nationworld-headlines
She's in CO working on loan from NASA, not at JSC.
She now says "I am accountable and fully responsible for ...

News briefs about a new dark spot on Jupiter and this weekend's Jupiter dual
moon transit have been posted at www.spacearchive.info
Regards,
BW

Marta R. Metelko
Headquarters, Washington                     February 02, 2004
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Hello..
    Here's two questions i have wanted answers to for awhile..
1) Does anyone have any ideas of possible landing craft or methods that
might be used to land humans on mars??  I keep trying to think of a

Is NASA currently proceeding as if it had the go ahead to launch in September ?
Or are actual launch preparation still in hiatus, pending completion of all
the RTF items ?
How soon will NASA be confident that it has worked out all the RTF stuff and

Do people keep on looking for conspiracies regarding  things like, Did man
walk on the moon, and are landers on Mars?
There really does seem to be no compelling reason to have these faked at
all, as  people are not stupid, and nobody could maintain secrets as long as