Space Forum / Shuttle / November 2005

BBC is currently running an "Explorations" episode that oulines many of
the technologies that have made it to general human use.
The foam developped to make the seat cushions for the shuttle (greatly
reducing vibration transmitted to astronauts) is a special foam cell

Hello there everyone,
I joined this competition callled The International Space Settlement
Design Competition organized by Nasa. In th request for proposal of the
competition that is given to me and my team, they require us to design

First Nasa decides 'where' it want to go, to the Moon
and Mars. Now it's trying to figure out 'why'.
Excuse me, I believe there's a technical term for Nasa's
decision making process.

When I looked at the vehicles that will be sending men back to the moon, I
laughed. To me, this is a major step backwards. Sure, the launch equipment
is from the shuttle system, but going back to this kind of vehicle makes it
look like the space shuttle program was a failure. No ...

Conversations With Eileen M. Collins
Interview by Frank Sietzen Jr.
http://www.aiaa.org/aerospace/images/articleimages/pdf/AA_Nov05_CON.pdf
Aerospace America, November 2005

Interesting article and link courtesy of http://www.nasawatch.com
Hawking's cosmological riff
By Stefanie Olsen, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: November 11, 2005, 11:48 AM PST

Dean Acosta
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1400)
Eileen Hawley/James Hartsfield

MOSCOW, November 11 (RIA Novosti) - NASA intends to send astronauts to the
International Space Station and back to Earth using Russian Soyuz
spacecraft, the head of Russian space industry leader Energia Rocket and
Space Corporation said Friday.

Look at KSC media archive "hotpics" the new look of pad 39B
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=4

http://www.flightinternational.com/Articles/2005/11/01/202471/Lighter+Kli
per+could+make+towed+trip+to+ISS.html
(mind the wordwrap)
A proposed lighter version, apparently without the

11.10.05
Jessica Rye
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Phone: (321) 867-2468

Hello everyone!!!
can anyone suggest an efficient orbit to fly a space craft from the L1
lagrange point from earth to mars sun-synchronous orbit?
thank you!!

Use the existing NON man rated Delta! Yeah thats right, dont man rate
the delta.
Build the CEV robust enough to survive delta booster failures! at most
just look at delta upgrades that might kill a crew and do them. accept

Just got to see today Tom Hanks new space film in IMAX. Good film. Very
realistic. It's too bad NASA never kept the 70mm movie film of the Saturn V
launches or we could have seen that in this film too. I wonder if the
moonscape images were done all on computer based off moon ...