Space Forum / Shuttle / June 2004

Not to belittle the great achievement made yesterday, but are the SS1 concept
and materials usable for real space flight ? Or is this a design that is
really limited to the Xprize mission ?
From what I heard, it only reached top speed of about Mach 3. Is that correct

I calculate, if he overshot the boundary by 400 feet,
he was 'in space' legally for 10 seconds. Does this compute?

Their www site says that this will air Wednesday, June 30, at 8 pm, don't know
how they handle different time zones.  A bit of information below.
-- rk
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From Jonathan's Space Report No. 529,  2004 Jun 28
http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html
 Nevertheless this is a historic moment, marking the real dawn
 of commercial human spaceflight. The trajectory was highly

Has there been any talk of removing at least some of the Challenger
debris so it can be used in the same manner as the Columbia debris? It
must be comforting, to a point, for the Columbia famlies that in a way,
the mission of their loved ones continues as research is done with

Be advised that I have posted the NASA TV coverage for the Cassini mission
on my web site. It is at:
http://www.spacearchive.info/news-2004-06-24-nasa.htm
Regards,

Can the space shuttle be converted to a commercial suborbital plane?
The space shuttle can be carried aloft on a 747 and released like the
white knight and the spaceshipone.  The space shuttle would use the
fuel stored in the cargo bay and carry passengers to suborbital

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp?
id=news/pan06244.xml
Panel Probes Technical Risks Of Robotic Hubble Servicing  
By Jefferson Morris  

got this email today, classic :)
NEW VIRUS WARNING
If you receive an e-mail with a subject line of "Badtimes," delete it
immediately WITHOUT reading it.  This is the most dangerous Email virus yet.

No Code talking here = WE ARE IN BIG TROUBLE
Start with this list of people at this group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Quantumcomputing/
I think they are buidling "Something Really Big" and it all from

Ken's book has finally made it to the GPO.  I think it's a great book
and everyone should buy a copy, but It's kind of expensive,
Here's the URL for the GPO:
http://bookstore.access.gpo.gov/

Regarding the following report from KSC: is Mr Johnson still eligible for a
flight, despite his new management job?
rgds
Neil

to a orbital version?
I kinda like the launced from aircraft idea. It elminates the hazardous
controlled bomb launch. The airplane part can be refuled whatever times
necessary to get it to launch altitude. This should increase its possible

Interesting to note that the first 'Humanaut" is 62 and obviously not a
top-of-the-line physical specimen - good advertising for the rest of us who
hope one day to be able to go into space.

NASA seem to be having problems getting their new boom together
for outside inspections, which begs the question why not have some
free floating semi autonomous / remote controlled device which could fly out
of the payload bay and have a look around?.    I thought that NASA had been