Space Forum / Shuttle / April 2006

So much for some postrers here supporting managements fast track idea.
I believe there are enough troubles buried in the fleet to limit
launches to maybe 1 a year. Thats better than burying more astronaut
remains......

Don't know what initially led me to this, but found it interesting.
ICBM's fly higher than the space shuttle?
The shuttle's orbit altitude is, what, 100 to 200 miles?
While the Minuteman has an apogee of 700 miles?

Exploiting Space
Bear with me on this, it's a rough draft and has a lot of holes and a
few assumptions that need investigating.
The present exploration of space gives a lot of pretty pictures but is a

NASA, HDNet Announce HDTV Space Shuttle Broadcast Partnership
http://www.hd.net/pressrelease.html?2006-03-29-01.html
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Dallas, TX - March 29, 2006 - NASA and HDNet
have formed a partnership allowing high-definition television

Here are some random shuttle questions I have always wondered about but
kept forgetting to ask:
1. Why do the SSMEs need to be firing when the stack lifts off?
2. Kind of related to the first question...what would happen if the

In another thread, you wrote:
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That won't work.  Naked bitching will only exacerbate the
"problem."  To make people stop that crossposting, you need to

Somebody else's opinion (and he has LOTS of those <grin>),
but lots of good points....