Space Forum / Shuttle / October 2004

View of Discovery's left wing without the RCC panels installed.  Two crew
members for the next shuttle mission appear to be in thought as they look at
the place where all of Columbia's troubles began...
-- Alan

NASA Redefines Boundary of Space After SpaceShipOne Flights
http://www.watleyreview.com/2004/100504-3.html
In an apparent fit of institutional pique following SpaceShipOne's
successful claim on the X-Prize, NASA has unexpectedly raised the

Is the earths heat, that causes volcanoes a finite resource being used up? Or
does the motion of the planets generate heat inside the earth?
As the moon looses energy to the earth providing us with tides etc is the moon
moving away measurable?  If so is the difference measurable ...

Horowitz and Carey have retired from NASA.
Anyone know where they went?
Bothwell

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/09/16/kliper.shtml
Looks a bit like this:
http://westweb.external.lmco.com/SSC/images/gallery/launchVehicles/osp/concept_e
valuation_low.jpg
Jon

The moon literally moves oceans by creating tides which have a lot of energy
(and in fact some of it is converted to electricity with tidal power dams).
Does the gravitational pull of moon against the moving oceans result in the
moon actualy losing kinetic energy (which would mean ...

NASA May Face Shuttle Worker Shortage, Report Says
May 19, 2004  By Broward Liston
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA's efforts to return its aging
space shuttles to flight will siphon so many workers away from

After the launch of Soyuz TMA-4, NASA TV interviewed a few NASA honchos who
were present at Baikonur.
One spoke of the return to flight in March, but with a possibility that it may
slide to May.

A flake brain day or two on this newsgroup, or are we just going to  have to
put up with complete rubbish for ever...
I know I come out with  the odd clueless post, but some of the strange
ramblings I have seen on here lately make me think that the writers are only

Discusses commercials and space.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/weekinreview/10schw.html?oref=login
Going to the Moon, Sponsored by M&M's, By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: October 10, 2004

I know i read somthing about feathered wing to slow speed ?, but can
somone explain this ?, better yet url me to a site or sites :)
Just love to know this, beats the Shuttles HOT HOT HOT rentry :(, that
fried some good people the last time.

I've been looking at some of the video's of Armadillo Aerospace's VTVL tests
and trying to determine the radius over which the blast effects could be
dangerous. Anyone know exactly? Are there effective measures to mitigate
the blast from engines, and how does it vary as the rocket ...

I am working on Image processing of Inverse Synthetic Aperure
Radar(ISAR) images.The image I am using is a BOE727 image produced by
Dr.B.D.Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania. As most of u know, we
need to do the range alignment first and then the image focussing.I am

[Original posted to s.s.tech, but it doesn't seem to be working]
Much circuitry requires an earth potential rail or something similiar, and
some interference shielding also requires such. What do you earth to in
space though? I've noted that the ISS has devices to equalise it's ...

A rare chance to see the SSME exhaust is in
<http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1996/high/KSC-96PC-1081.jpg>.
You can also see the angle the SSMEs are firing at early in flight.
/dps