Space Forum / Shuttle / April 2005

Exactly what does the foam do?  Is it insulating the shuttle from the tank?
Thanks!
cc

see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/space/orl-bk-nasa042805,0,3809195
.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

We've all seen the statistics that say flying in airliners is 10x or 100x
safer than driving.
Of course that's true only in terms of fatalities per million passenger
miles.  Its not true if you calculate fatalities per million trips or

You would think that NASA / USA gov would let the suttle make at least one
extra trip into space to repair it or come up with some smaller craft that
could be used from ISS to go to the Hubble to do the repairs. Maybe they
could do what they did to get other people - other than ...

The Apollo era was before the politically correct era. And as I recall,
didn't really have a toilet per say nor were there mixed sex crews.  Is
this correct ?  And the capsule was the living quarters. The service
module didn't offer any habitable space. (nor was access to it ...

There's going to be a story on 60 Minutes Wednesday (8PM on CBS)
tonight about preparations for the first space shuttle launch since the
Columbia tragedy two years ago, including an interview with Eileen
Collins, a mother with two young kids, who's the shuttle commander.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=713418
NASA to Delay Space Shuttle Launch
Reuters
Apr. 29, 2005 - NASA plans to delay the launch of space shuttle

Air Force Space Command News Service
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 18, 2005
Story ID 05-111
Weather squadron protects shuttle, crews

http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_6442.php/$35M_of_Equipment_Missi
ng_from_NASA
Tech News
$35M of Equipment Missing from NASA
By UPI

DART bumped into target satellite during test
http://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/2881
As NASA announced the formation of a mishap investigation board to examine the
partial failure of the DART spacecraft a week ago, agency officials confirmed

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/050423ship.shtml
Article about a ship with *strange domes* that is docked at The Portland
Ocean Terminal.. _rumors_ and seculation around the docks point to the
possibility that Lockheed Martin has leased the ship in order to track

hoi

Hubble celebrates today its 15th anniversary today, according to the BBC
and released new spectacular pictures.
BBC also reports that the scientific community is putting pressure on
NASA to reconsider its decision to let Hubble die prematurely.

Those of you who watch "The West Wing" undoubtedly noticed the
storyline about the military space shuttle in the last two episodes
of the season. For those who don't watch the show, the story is that
there's a slow air leak on the space station and there are no

...Seeing as how I'm going to the JSC Open House in a few days, I
probably should repost my revised guide on how to survive an OH,
especially one in Houstopolis: From my own 'blog at
http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld