Space Forum / Shuttle / August 2005

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In the post above, Dennis Jenkins attributes the following to Aerojet:
"It also pointed out that fewer than 100 segmented solid rockets had
been fired - including 25 pairs of UTC 120-inch 5-segment ...

Dear sci.space.shuttle
This post is to set the record straight, and to correct the great deal
of incorrect and extremely old & outdated information which is
displayed on this sci.space.policy news group when the search term

It would have meant chromedome wouldn't have been able to have
Eileen Collins on 8/30.
You notice how Letterman didn't announce that she would be on until
AFTER the shuttle returned home in one piece.

Does anyone have any info on the construction of the Shuttle's tail cone
fairing and how it is transported from site to site?

Sad news about Hollands first astronaut.
Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels (STS-61A) is in a coma after a hart attack last
Tuesday...
More news to follow....

Ok, I know my writting style is bad but this is getting weird.  Not one of
the follow ups to my posts reflect what I said, instead they read as if I
wrote something completely diffirent.  Is my News Read missing messages????
douggy_hou@hotmail.com :

I have photos from The SCA and Discovery at Little Rock AFB back in 2001 or
2002 if wanted I will post them or email me and I'll email them
al.ross2005<<at>>gmail.com
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Can anyone direct me to an online video showing the entire shuttle re-entry? Not just the touchdown, but from WAY out there. They must film the entire event but I have never seen this before. TIA!

when the shuttle prototype 'enterprise' was separated in flight from the
carrier to perform the flight tests, how did they prevent the shuttle
from crashing into the airplane?
does anyone know what kind of manoeuvre was performed?

Just a couple of days ago "The New York Times" mentioned that NASA
still not has an answer to the question why foam separates from ET. I
am sure, it is easy to verify co-incidents of foam separations and
trajectory correction jerks. NASA has as time synchronized video as

Space Shuttle Update
Monday, August 22, 2005
The Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery arrived back at the Kennedy Space Center
Sunday morning after a three-day cross-country ferry flight from Edwards Air

Just curious, I know the chances of the following scenario are very
small but I'm wondering how it would be addressed (a friend at work
asked me and I don't have an answer):
Both CDR and PLT of a shuttle are incapacitated(how or why I don't

The thread about this has sort of wandered..
Anyway, I noticed that they whipped that damaged blanket of and sent it to
be analysed very fast indeed. From what I can tell, though, it is very
unlikely that such a blanket would cause problems other than coming

None of the shuttle visits to the Mir space station was carried out by
Columbia. Was this only a coincidence or were there technical issues
that prevented Columbia from docking with Mir?
Thanks in advance,

Discovery is Home!
The Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery successfully landed at the Shuttle
Landing Facility (SLF) at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Discovery, riding
piggy-back on the modified Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), made a sweep of