Space Forum / Shuttle / August 2005

On Sunday night, on WABC radio, I was listening to one of the hourly
news updates from ABC News, and I heard a brief sound bite from an
interview with Astronaut Pamela Melroy. She sounded very emotional and
said of the returning Discovery crew "They're bringing Columbia home"

STS 114 the White Nosed Shuttle :
STS 114, the white-nosed shuttle
had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him,

I've seen a few very short clips of re-entry from the crews perspective.
Always much too short for me. Are there any full length videos to be had out
there?
Les

Is there any reason why the voice to/from the orbiter is not digitally
encoded/decoded? To laggy? Listening on NASA TV sometimes I can barely make
out what the pilots are saying.

I'd really like to see before/after shots of the damaged tile areas.
Is this available anywhere?

Nothing more needs to be said!

We always hear about the alternate landing sites for the shuttle, but
was wondering if there is a list out there of these. Something with a
order of precidence.
Mik

What if instead of thinking of ways to reinforce the foam you went the
other direction.  What if we used a very light insulation, perhaps
something like aerogel?  Yes, of course you would have to be very
careful with it getting it to the pad.  However, I'm betting aerogel has

Anyone now a good spot at Edwards to watch the landing from being that
the base is not open to the public for the landing?
Andy

Can anyone point me to the current poistion map?
Thanks

The Orbiter just flew over us and announced its presence.  Everyone in
Lancaster and at Edwards is wide awake, I'll bet.
It's a good landing, in the dark.  They had IR imaging and the nose
was really bright.  They also had HUD video, with the green imagery

Look at this email I just got from them. How can they copyright NASA video?
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It has come to my attention that you have posted video belonging to
Spaceflight Now on your website.

It's about 12 minutes until the deorbit burn, and a small while shuttle-shaped
object is being carefully kept centered on NASA TV. I haven't been paying close
enough attention- it that the shuttle through a telescope? We might actually see
the burn and early reentry? Amazing, if ...

       I was watching this shuttle launch with apprehension. That's because
earlier the shuttle was sitting on the pad and something fell off the
shuttle and hit the tail section. This required a repair. Now that should
have set off a red light in the head of these "geniuses" at ...

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