Space Forum / Shuttle / June 2005

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David Paul Kuhn explains how the Democratic representative John Conyers
defied Republicans to call for an inquiry into the 'Downing Street

With what we have spent on the War in Iraq, we could have a fleet of 20 new
design shuttles.
The war's true cost is is about half a trillion.

from
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8803082>,
one of many places the story has appeared:
Space shuttle heads back to Florida launch pad

Air Force General Donald J. Kutyna led the Accident Analysis Panel of
the Presidential Commission which investigated the Challenger disaster.
In this thread, I will present optical evidence revealing that General
Kutyna *misled* the American public as to that disaster's true cause.

Is there a stated reason why there are so many astronauts? Most only
ever do 2 or 3 missions, and John Young was virtually the only long term
career astronaut. Why is the system of more newbie astronauts, instead
of regularly flying experienced astronauts preferred? Thanks,

The acceleration problem was solved in a Flash Gordon episode.  Dr. Zarkov
theorized if the people immersed themselves in a barrel of water, they
could withstand unlimited acceleration and deceleration during flight.  It
worked.  This should be further investigated by NASA, ...

Yes, that way we could fly to Mars in a few minutes and build a base
over there.
We just have to ask the aliens, who are here since Roswell, if they
can sell us hyperdrive technology...

Israeli Forensic Expert Solves Mystery of Ilan Ramon's Diary
By David Brinn, June 05, 2005
http://www.jfri.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=154417
An interesting story.

I have been unable to find the answer to this question: Where are the
Shuttle LES/ACES Suits (or "pumpkin suits") stored in the cabin after
launch. In all of the pictures I've seen of Astronauts in the Space
Shuttle, I've never seen then stowing or unpacking the launch suits.

Both shuttle tragedies were beyond a reasonable doubt conclusive
explanations by photographic evidence. (accident itself and data supporting
the hypothesis of a breach)
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CBS News carried the story tonight of how in the course of his job at
Los Alamos (as an auditor, I think) this poor fellow uncovered millions
in government waste. When he was told by his superiors to stop, he
reported it. CBS also showed before and after pictures of him. Why

What was the meaning of the black rectangles on the old SRBs?
Thanks.

see
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-06-07-shuttle-debris_x.htm
     Posted 6/7/2005 9:18 PM
     Shuttle study finds higher risk of fatal hit by debris

What if a form of wildlife wandered onto the shuttle landing facility
as an orbiter was making an approach? Does NASA have precautions for
something like that? I would guess there may be a fence around the area
or something to rule out the possibility of that ever happening,

These are things of interest I've found so far on the Russian language
Buran website.
There'll be more of this, but their site is down at the moment, so I'll
need to wait till it gets back up to find other things