Space Forum / Shuttle / August 2005

Is there any point in SSTO technology? It seems SSTO means any flight
you have a lot of dead weight with you on orbit?
Best,
Vello

Why is STS-121 out of numerical order, directly following STS-114,
with later missions to be designated STS-115, 116 etc.?

Uniting the quantum, classical and living realms.
A phase transition is when a system resides at
the critical point between it's static and chaotic
attractors. Such as a cloud residing at the critical

The maps on the various websites are not too accurate, but it appears
the Michoud facility may have been under the path of the eye.  (The
worst place to be.)
Just having the hurricane past does not end the danger - there's a lot

It is reported that a light plane got within 20 miles of the Shuttle just
before launch.
The plane was intercepted by F 16 and then landed, the pilot then " ran away
" disappearo ", " vanished " , Hello there America.

All,
I'm looking for a detailed and precise graph giving the speed
of the shuttle at every moment, from lift-off until it
reaches orbit.  Not easy for me to find it on the web...  

Does anyone have something like an essey with the subject:
Rocket Fuel & Propulsion
Thanks

from "www.wwl.com" website ....
KATRINA DELAYS NASA WORK
The space shuttle's external fuel tanks were supposed to be shipped back
to New Orleans this week, from Kennedy Space Center, but that has been

Looking at
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.shuttle/msg/56e607f77f9cd313
(thanks to Andrew above for that link) in a manifest that went into 2008, we
see Columbia was to have flown STS-118 and STS-121, the latter in April

Rick Nelson wrote:

More details on the Indian recoverable satellite plan.
Does the recoverable module have the size to carry a pilot, I wonder?
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=99916
     Isro all set to join satellite rescue club

Jessica Rye
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)
STATUS REPORT: S05-035

You know, you heare some very strange things when tuning around on a radio
late at night...
Apparently, this guy, and I never found out exactly who and where he was,
wanted to build a very high tubular structure so the top end was at a

Maybe the geniuses at NASA should take a lesson from the indian tribes
still dotting the landscape around the globe, because from what I have just
read, they have designed a walkway that will stick out a mere 70 feet from
a rocky outcropping in the Grand Canyon, yet be able to ...

"Certainly not," Gwedif said. "no salesmen will come to your door."
"That's terrible," Miranda said, and I could hear a trace of bitterness in h
er voice. "She deserves better than to have her brain, or any part of her, j
ust thrown in the trash. Any of us do."