Space Forum / Shuttle / September 2005

Chinese media name likely astronauts
SHANGHAI (AFP) Sep 28, 2005
China's state-run press on Wednesday named the likely astronauts to pilot
the nation's second manned space flight tenatively scheduled to be launched

Shuttle spends time in the OPF getting ready/maintained. Then it goes to
VAB where the stack is assembled, then moved to the pad where it spends
about a month for further outfitting and loading of cargo bay.
In an original scenario of high frequency launches, I could see a point

Anyone else see this yet?
"David Radzanowski at OMB issued an action to NASA at the beginning of
September asking the agency to provide him with an estimate of what
shutdown costs would result from a termination of the Space Shuttle

Allard Beutel/Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-4769/3749)
Jessica Rye

"Neil Halelamien" <neuronexmachina@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1127678321.423737.279200@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

http://www.opencourse.info/astronomy/introduction/05.motion_planets/jupiter_satu
rn_retro.gif
The faster  Earth,taking and inner orbital circuit explains by direct
perception the apparent retrograde motions of the other planets.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~mcgrew/chain.htm

Just a note that we're thinking of you all and hope that everyone is and will
be OK.  

Couldn't you cut the risks in half by sending two missions at the same time?
Send two person crews on each, though the CEV can accommodate four for
double redundancy?

       Does anyone know the maximum amount of cabin space the new CEV will
have for the astronauts to occupy?  Anyone know what the dimensions of the
CEV crew cabin will be or know of a website when I can find this
information?  I wonder if it will be as big as the space shuttle ...

       Has the final CEV design been chosen and what will it look like, the
Lockheed design with small winglets or will it be a complete modular design
like the Apollo spacecraft?  As far as I know the launcher for the CEV will
be a 2 stage launcher rocket composed of one solid ...

I had a bad feeling and knew this was coming...
Leaders target NASA budget for storm costs
Congressmen: Moon plan may take back seat to Katrina recovery
BY LARRY WHEELER

I can only assume once the shuttle's flown for the last time, the tons of
rubbish (sorry garbage) that was returned safely to earth in the Raffaello
Multi-Purpose Logistics Module will now be stored in some kind of orbital
space fill site. Is NASA developing a Multi Purpose Cargo ...

A new space blog -
http://astronautix.com/Mambo/
Let's get a dialogue going - for 30 years NASA has been 'better than
nothing'...

       For sake of argument lets say that moon, mars and beyond is
underfunded and then canceled next decade sometime, so the moon, mars and
beyond program is off.  What will NASA spend their 16 billion dollar or 15
billion dollar budget money on?  Orbiting the Earth in CEV and ...

Looking at the planned vehicles for the return to the moon, the
article(s) seemed to emphasize leverage of shuttle technology. For
example the use of SSMEs and SSRBs. However, only the CEV was described
as reusable.