Space Forum / Shuttle / August 2005

Thought it might be an interesting exercise?
See
http//homepage.mac.com/gslee1/newsread.html
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My old email address for him doesn't seem to be working.
Found a typo in his third edition I wanted to pass on.
Anyone have it?
Thanks.

Your favorite barking dog wrote:
"... the specific roll angles are not ever enumerated specifically ..."
Attaboy, Fido.

ok, i just heard that Edwards will be open tomarrow for an alternite
landing site.
Angela

In the map for the long-range ground track
(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/124492main_sts114_ksc201_long.gif),
what is the red symbol at 40N, 65W?  What are the numbers along the
right vertical axis of the map and what measurement unit are they in?

What does the A or R represent in GPS BII A (or R) . Also PRN followed by a
number,
Time for another installment of THE CONSPIRACY ORIENTED ALIEN
Part 7 or is it 8

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4130980.stm
 Astronauts talk about how wonderfully fragile the earth is; is
 NASA actually observing that issue when putting them up there?
I've read worse articles, though it screws up on the "environmentally

The tire blew the failing aluminum very far inside the failure zone of
its structural inegrity.  The outer wing would have failed a few seconds
later without the tire blowing, but I don't think the Shuttle would have
become so quickly twisted into a sideways position that ripped ...

On many       Communications on this mission they seem to have had to
reboot the systems to get a machine called proshare visible on the ground in
order to transfer data. What version of Windows are they using?Sounds like
98, surely not!!

Yesterday I recorded a short clip on 148.5 MHz
download on my website
www.gorgecreekorchards.com.au
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Leroy Cain has vetoed the second opportunity for Discovery to come home (to
KSC) today. Delay 24 hrs. Despite forecast cloud ceiling at 15,000ft the
actual conditions are scattered 500, scattered 700ft, and "unstable"
atmospheric conditions.

Leroy Cain has delayed Discovery's arrival due to weather at the KSC SLS
facility, clouds broken at 1000ft, but forecasters say an improvement can be
expected for the second opportunity.

In the early to mid 80s there were rumors that the US Military owned
NASA type space orbiters of its own that had no names but only numbers.
Were there ever any such orbiters or was it possibly do to somebody
hearing military radio traffic that didn't use orbiter names?

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I mentioned the other day, about a factual error in a press release and
today there is another. Anyone just listening to the comms yesterday and
this morning would know that it is Steve only who is going to do the gap
filler operation, as indeed it was stated yesterday as well.