Space Forum / Shuttle / August 2005

I am watching NASA tv on the USA link. Does any one know where I can get it
on the net with a bigger picture than 2x2 on my 17" monitor.

They are like a hammer hitting some metal stuff.
thnks

Engineers Suspect Foam Hit Shuttle Wing During Liftoff
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ShuttleReturn/story?id=987399
July 28, 2005 — NASA analysts suspect at least one piece of foam did
in fact hit the wing of the space shuttle Discovery as it took off on

Sunday, August 7, 2005 - 8:30 p.m. CDT
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas
STS-114 MCC Status Report #26
Discovery's Return to Flight mission is scheduled to conclude with a landing

This would appear to be a highly relevant presentation:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/news/columbia/sts28r_earlyboundary.pdf
Consists of a post-flight analysis report of STS-28 which experienced
early boundary layer transition during re-entry.  Conclusion was that

I heard or read somewhere that the SRB fuel started out as a dry cleaning
substance. Is there any truth to this?
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Jessica Rye/Bruce Buckingham
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)
RELEASE: 74-05

Just watched Discovery undock from ISS...
Could of sworn as Discovery moved away that it looked like something was
floating away from the Shuttle cargo bay in the general direction of ISS
(slightly to the left).

STS-114 MCC Status Report #24
Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005 - 8:30 p.m. CDT
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas
Discovery's astronauts will begin turning their attention toward coming back

When the shuttles take off and they (Houston) tell the astronauts "go
with throttle up or maxq" is it at that point the most dangerous part of
the launch?

Saturday, August 6, 2005 - 1:30 p.m. CDT
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas
STS-114 MCC Status Report #23
Discovery is flying solo today, following its early morning departure from

I was watching the news today and they had a bit of the
Eileen speech from ISS before the separation. It looked
like all the crews from both ISS and Discovery were there
as she spoke into a hand-held mic. What I thought was an

Has anyone got the time (in GMT) for the start of the re-entry procedure?
I'd like to catch it on NASA TV
Thanks!
350k feed  @ http://space44.sp.funpic.de/live%20stream/N350K.php

First, consider Mission 51-L, in 1986. No rectangular intertank-access
cover appears to be missing here:
<http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v3n27.htm>.
Similarly, no rectangular intertank-access cover appears to be missing

Are they planning a "standard"  atmospheric re "entry"  (why do they say re
entry?) as compared to the last flight of Columbia's atmospheric interface,
angle of attack, etc.?
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