Space Forum / Shuttle / July 2005

Space Shuttle Damaged on the Launch Pad
By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer 13 minutes ago
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With the countdown for Discovery in its final hours,
NASA was dealt a setback Tuesday when a window cover fell off the shuttle

Dear newsgroup,
I would like to view the shuttle (STS-114) after launch tomorrow.
I'm living in southwestern Germany. I think, I should have a chance to see
it just some 15 to 25 minutes after launch occurs during the first orbit. I

See Subject: line.

This launch will take appx 12 tons of equipment for the ISS, but when will
further components of the station be launched?

Both Challenger and Columbia were brought down by problems that were known
and either dismissed and/or hushed up.
Many of you sound like rabid Nixon supporters, denying to the last breath
that there was a problem no matter what evidence is presented.  You lambast

Friday marks the 888th day since Columbia's infamous demise on STS-107.
 Here's hoping Discovery's flight on STS-114 goes well starting
(hopefully) a week from today.  I'll be glued to the coverage, both
broadcast and streaming over the net as a lot of people will be.

Unnnh, what's the second most insulating material NASA has its hands on?
That would be:  CERAMIC TILES!  Why not glue them (they're cheap as sh.t 
now) on the external tank on the Shuttle-Mounted side and coat them with
Teflon (to shed any ice during the initial shaking of takeoff. ...

I was 5 when I saw my first space launch. It was not an everyday event. It
was televised and it was the greatest thing. I passed up the Rat Patrol and
Combat to watch the launch. It was every boys dream at that time. Then
tragedy. Grissom, White and Chaffee...gone. Grissom was to ...

I think NASA has come a long way during the last two and a half years.  From
the public's perspective, nothing can be a more obvious demonstrator of that
than the upcoming lunch.  But the one thing I don't like is how NASA
officials keep self-assuring themselves that they have ...

Firstly, I read the  item of news about the Columbia' exhaust plume making
clouds at high altitudes in Antarctic, and noted that they seemed to be
saying that material ablated from the Shuttle engines was being detected.
As a reusable engine, i always thought that ablation was not ...

just curious if i can watch the lauch live on the net

From the local paper.
-- rk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2005/07/09/AR2005070901046.html

60 Minutes will be doing a segment on space tourism tonight at 7pm EDT
Pat

If launch would be attempted then We will destroy Space Shuttle
Discovery.
We art CHRIST.
/Nathan

Hello from Danilo (Italy)
I know that 20 minutes (about) after launch Shuttle will transit in
italian skies. How can I find information about trajectory?
In www.heavens-above.com there is nothing!