Space Forum / Shuttle / March 2006

- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Pre-Arrival News Briefing
Video
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=
142&Itemid=2
NASA TV LIVE: 3:30 - 5:45 p.m. - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Coverage -

I want a plastic kit from the Orbiter (removable) on the ET with the SRBs.
Only found 1:144 from Revell, Airfix and Minicraft. Which one ist the best?
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Dwayne A. Day picks apart the *Aviation Week* account of a secret two-stage
"Blackstar" spaceplane, while reminding us of earlier highly-speculative
scoops from William B. Scott:
<http://www.thespacereview.com/article/576/1>

Did we ever figure if there was anything to this report?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE3D6153BF937A25757C0A960948260
and
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space ...

I'm a big fan of this show, and the opening credits displays a
pictorial history and possible future of human exploration. After the
ISS, they show a futurized space craft. What I didn't notice until
today was the craft has "OV-165" on the side, paying homage to the

My sister-in-law sent me a series of photographs purported to be of the
break-up of Columbia, taken by an Israeli sattelite.
Has this appeared elsewhere? Is there any piece of truth in it at all?
It sure looks bogus to me..

- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Coverage / highlights
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=
145&Itemid=2
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Post-Arrival News Briefing
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index ...

Aviation Week artical talked about Boron-gel, better yet Aluminum-Argon
AlAr.
http://www.navytechmatch.org/DOD/Patent/PatentView.aspx?id=5597947
Interesting, Aluminum-Argon, after the argon falls off (very nice

Msnbc.com (Oberg) -- Did Pentagon create orbital space plane?
Magazine reports evidence for classified project, sparking some skepticism
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11691989/
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

NASA investigating shuttle processing incidents
NASA is launching an investigation into three shuttle processing
accidents in the past week, two of which caused damage to
billion-dollar orbiters.

AWST: Two-Stage-to-Orbit Manned 'Blackstar' System
Aviation Week & Space Technology
http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/030606p1.xml
           Two-Stage-to-Orbit 'Blackstar' System Shelved at Groom Lake?

NASA has officially added the servicing mission to the manifest.
Endeavour will launch on February 7, 2008 on the STS-125 (HST SM-04)
mission to the HST.

Sorry if this has been pointed out before, but has anyone seen this?
http://www.nasaproblems.com/
Not sure what to make of it, just yet...
Jon

http://snipurl.com/n848
http://news.google.com/ Results about 552 for Bush NASA Space Budget.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/03032006/world/90559.htm
Scientists: Bush's space program not using money well

Astronaut's father dies
Our sympathies go to Eileen Collins, commander of last summer's mission
of shuttle Discovery. Her father was struck and killed by a car in
Elmira, N.Y., on Monday, the Associated Press reports. James Collins,