Space Forum / Shuttle / May 2004

Looking back on the Space Station Freedom project that eventually became ISS
I've been wondering what NASA planned to use as a lifeboat for crews. The
Russians weren't invovled so Soyuz wasn't the option early on. Then I noticed
this:

Reports indicate nasa is looking at a shuttle derived heavy lift booster for
the future.
Just how practical might that be? Cost effective?
Is it possible to group 3 solids for heavier loads?

Anyone see hear the commercia where kerry heckles bush mars proposal?
Since bush isnt reelectable given Iraq mess that means kerry is a shoe in.
How bad will it be? ground shuttles turn over iSS to partners who will likely
deorbit it?

A TV documentary to be shown here next week is described thus
"Investigating a form of lightning which strikes from the clouds up into
space. Thousands of times more powerful than ground lightning, could it
have been a cause of the Columbia space shuttle disaster?"

Planetarium to receive prisoner-built replica of doomed shuttle
Posted 5/20/2004 6:40 PM     Updated 5/20/2004 6:55 PM
By Sara Leitch, Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine — Displayed among model boats, wooden furniture and

For the sake of argument, let's say an astronaut conduction an EVA
slipped out of the foot harnessed and started to float away. The only
way to resuce is for the shuttle to undock from the ISS and go get the
astronaut. How quickly could the shuttle do this?

anyone knows where there is a good drawing of pad 39. Looking for the
correct placement of the tower and the trac for the RSS.
Thanks
Daniel

I have a doubt about the first mission of Columbia.
If I am not wrong, during lift off there were a lot of impacts on the
thermal shield (tiles) because of foam debris coming from the external
tank. I think that this caused some damage on tiles, but what I am not

A while ago on the discussion thread about the risks to an HST servicing
mission I cited a study listed in Paul Jenkin's book on the History of the
Space Shuttle that stated the odds of a launch failure or landing failure and
subsequently there was a debate over what a launch or ...

http://www.floridatoday.com/news/space/stories/2004a/spacestoryN0505MOONMA
RS.htm
O Keefe says moon mars program can be done keeping bbudget the same, plus
inflation.

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According to an item on GMTV (UK) this morning. Travolta was interviewed
and says he is thrilled but needs to look into when he can spare six months
from his film commitments to undergo the necessary training.

Has anybody here heard about this yet? What could of caused this, they
look like headlights to me. Maybe there was another airplane far in the
distance?
Video can be seen here:

As you may know in light of the big bang paradigm's explanatory impotence
many physicists claim, including Leonard Susskind of Stanford University and
his colleagues, that the contemporary theoretical view of the Universe is so
unlikely that it must be logically flowed, and ...

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Subject: Re: Something for John Maxson to Read
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