Space Forum / Shuttle / February 2006

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
NASA aims for 8 shuttle launches in 15 months
NASA is aiming to launch eight shuttle missions in 15 months between
May and September 2007, assuming the agency can overcome continuing

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts121/060217ceit/
latter issue appears to be a generic problem in that metallic debris,
estimated to weigh just 0.08 milligrams, has been found in the liquid
oxygen prevalve filter screen used by Discovery's main engine No. 1 and

From what I understand, immediately after lift-off, the team at KSC
hands off control to Houston. Is this correct? Was there a political
reason for this? I don't know anything rocket science, but since the
KSC team is responsible for operations before lift-off, handing off

Anyone know how several spam messages have infiltrated this moderated group
in recent days? I've seen three on my text only server since the start of
the weekend.
Brian

I know it doens't matter one iota, a good landing is one that is on the
runway and the crew is home safe - I know.
I'm just wondering if there have been any particularly good or bad
shuttle landings.  I'm sure the commanders, being military fighter

Almost unbelievably here in America, the land of the "free," we still
have an administration, a Congress, a Supreme Court, and a
government-industrial aerospace monopoly which perpetuate the
degenerate corruption, the gross injustice, and the obscene cover-up

7 myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster
It didn't explode, the crew didn't die instantly and it wasn't inevitable
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11031097/
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

02.13.06
Allard Beutel/Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
Phone: (202) 358-4769/3749

Orbiters may save themselves
2/3/2006 5:18:00 PM
By: Chris Bergin
A new modification kit may be installed into all three of NASA's Space

So they sue NASA, build a new module with the money... do they think
NASA will ever fly it after that? Somehow I think it will become
something that "does not fit NASA's current plans" ever again.
They're stuck between a rock and a hard place: they're out $80m for a

"Bob Haller" <hallerb@aol.com> wrote in news:1137675598.284294.313120
@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Mightily disappointed not to be able to receive signals from the now
frozen, inoperative Suitsat.  Perhaps if they had painted the suit black to
absorb heat from the sun instead of the reflective white that is designed to
keep a hot, working astronaut cool the batteries may have ...

Twenty years ago this morning I was a young engineer at the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  I drove to work early to see
the STS-51L crew (I was a Judith Resnik fan, and always will
be) exit their crew quarters, which I could see from my office

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http://history1900s.about.com/sitesearch.htm?terms=challenger%20explosion%20pict
ures&SUName=history1900s&TopNode=21500&type=1
That is a good site to see some good pictures of the EXPLOSION!  There
a couple of pictures of Ronald "Bonzo" Reagan and his minion sheeple
trying to act as ...