Space Forum / Shuttle / September 2004

With the station likely being unmanned, if its decided to never send another
crew the shuttles are a goner too.
Whats involved in shuttering the program and where will the orbiters be
residing?

9-11-2004 & HURRICAN IVAN WILL BE A BIG BANG AS IN
Hurricane Charley , Hurricane Andrew 1992, FIRES AND 9-11-2001
Dum People Live In Hurricane Country, fire country, ny 911 country
Then Cry When There Live Is Turn Upside because of small tragedies

Here's a theory on contributing causes of the destruction of Columbia which
I hadn't heard before.  This article was published about a week after the
loss:
http://www.pscu.com/articles/daily/8,6,1,0210,03.html

Interesting. Note large turn-around at north end, the long length, and
the tow-out path at the south.
http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/online/airportdiagrams/00770AD.PDF

Sorry if this issue has been raised before, but I'm curious. I've just
been reading through the CAIB report again and on Page 77 Volume 1
"STS-107 Crew Survivability" it notes that during the accident ACES
suits were not being correctly worn by all crewmembers. Three were not

Hallo Comunity,
gibt es im Internet eine (mehrere) Seiten, auf denen man sich den
Start von Space Shuttles als mpeg Videos downloaden kann ?
Freue mich über jeden Link - Vielen Dank !

The story says a six-foot piece of the crew compartment that contains a
"hinged window" was found. Can anyone with knowledge of what windows
have and have not been found take a guess at what window this might be?

Time histories of first bank manueuver on STS-1
  http://home.comcast.net/~stellare/iliff/f-3.jpg
From Iliff's From Runway to Orbit:Reflections of a NASA Engineer
And trying out my new www site.  Please let me know if there are any problems

This 1998 CNN/Associated Press article gives a hint about "lightweight
items taken on each shuttle flight for the novelty of being in space":
  http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9801/11/dinosaur.in.space.ap/
Does anyone have the list ?

Well, I hope they can salvage something from Genesis. It is indeed
comforting that the deployment system on the capsule is not used on manned
missions.
Maybe the battery was a dud...

Noting the new contracts given to companies for 'ideas' on Lunar
exploration, makes me a little worried. we had space plane ideas, and single
stage to orbit demonstrators etc etc, loads of money is spent for little
real gain.

Any dollar estimates?
HAVE A GREAT DAY!

An issue was recently raised as to whether or not the orange suits
(ACES, not the LES) could keep shuttle astronauts alive in the vacuum
of space.  I am not aware of any reason why they could not. I expect
that they could be as effective as Ed White's EVA suit.

Craig Fink <craig@WeBeGood.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.09.10.01.10.43.695662@WeBeGood.net>...

NASA has released the first damage assessment for the Kennedy Space
Center:
"Emergency crews are on site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and
are providing the first information on conditions there following