Space Forum / Shuttle / December 2005

So now there doesn't seem to be much doubt about reusing shuttle components
to produce a heavy lift booster (based on the external tank with a cargo
booster piggy backed on) and an inline solution utilising the SRB's to boost
crew into orbit, with a CEV.

Rockets are a much different propulsion system then jets.  They look a
little bit similiar, but work on somewhat different principles and
perform much differently:
Note:  I am writing this because rocket propelled spaceplanes aren't

http://www.flightinternational.com/Articles/2005/11/29/203404/Shuttle+flight+â??
likelyâ??+in+third+quarter.html
according to this link fall.
time is slipping away, wonder if the next launch will be before its
retired?

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4115
Discovery leak under investigation
12/6/2005 12:19:00 PM
By: Chris Bergin

11.22.05
Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
Phone: (202) 358-3749

Do they make small lox /liquid hydrogen facilities the size of a 747? Maybe
put the production facilities on a small craft and.......
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The mission objective failed.
If both astronauts take no action, neither will be blamed for the
failure, but both lose their pensions.
If one astronaut blames the other for the mistake, he gets to fly

Foam Cracks May Delay Shuttle Launch
Program Manager Says Problem May Pose 'Unacceptable Safety Threat'
By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer

Now currently you can send your ashes to space. J Doohan of star trek
is having that done.
How about sending something of a LIVE person, like fingernails with a
bio printed in micro sized print into heliospheric orbit?

Let's face it, the Shuttle is the most expensive and most dangerous
spacecraft we have ever flown and it never leaves orbit.
It is not what the engineers wanted when it was being designed, but
it's all they cold get.  I would still however stop short of saying

December 2, 2005
J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
(202) 358-5241