Space Forum / Shuttle / August 2005

I'm trying to find NASA footage, especially space shuttle footage. And
before somebody's gonna post links to video files, I should probably
say that I'm trying to find "production quality" footage. Decent enough
to be shown on professional quality presentation, that is.

They keep mentioning this and the only OVSS I can find reference to is
Oxidizer Vapor Scrubbing System but I don't think that is what they are
talking about.
Can someone shed light?

i urgently need articles explaning the mechanism,particular the
stucture of spacestation-spacecraft or satllite-satllite docking?could
anyone help me?Thank U!

Anyone know of a site that will give me the reentry trajectory for the
shuttle. Orbit 201 I think. I want to know if I will have a chance to see it.
Thanks,
Space Joe

First post here and I'm curious... If this foam thing was such an
issue why is it SO important now?  They had to have known things over
the dozens and dozens of flights.... I have to think crap was falling
off all along...

If NASA just built a cargo shuttle, no wings, no heat sheild, just a cargo
fairing, and SSME's, OMS and RMS systems, how much payload could it carry
to the ISS? Thanks,
David

Is there any reason why a Control Moment Gyro (CMG) is only serviceable from
space, via spacewalk?

How long, I wonder before someone starts selling gap fillers on Ebay!

Brian

We have photos of gap fillers that have come lose on past missions.
Grouped by orbiter, taken on the runway after landing.
usspacenews.com

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050802/D8BNVUB81.html
By MARCIA DUNN, Aug 2, 7:17 PM (ET)
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - Employing the kind of NASA ingenuity seen during
Apollo 13, an astronaut prepped for an emergency repair job on Discovery's

Given all that NASA has learned on this mission about the tiles and foam
seperation - can a non-docking-w/ISS mission be OK'd before Hubble
de-orbits?
This is really the saddest thing I've ever seen foolish politicians do..

Foam and the limits of foresight
by Dwayne A. Day and Christopher Kirchhoff, Monday, August 1, 2005
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/423/1
In May 2003, midway through the Columbia investigation, a member of the

I watch it on TV this morning and make me to wonder.
If the over protruding gap filler is removed entirely, dont they
leaving a gap/void there? Wont it become a problem during the re-entry
again?

Melissa Mathews/James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston                       August 3, 2005
(Phone: 281/483-5111)
RELEASE: 05-212

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-07-31-shuttle-material_x.htm
one of the hallmarks of "normal" accidents and disasters is that efforts
to prevent the previous accident frequently cause the next one.
Time to retire the shuttle.