Space Forum / Shuttle / June 2006

I'm leaving for camping on Saturday moring and not coming back until
Tuesday morning. Great timing, huh? Can someone list the launch times
for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday so I can set my VCR in case Saturday's
launch is scrubbed?

Is Barbara Morgan still scheduled for a flight, and is she even interested?
The shuttle is on the road towards ending it's mission objectives, and with
only three operation birds left, I'm betting education will get pushed way
back again.  What is our TIS candidate's status with ...

Just a reminder that the High-Definition TV channel HD-NET will be
carrying the launch of STS-121 on Saturday.
http://www.hd.net/schedule_sevenday.html#CMID4175
Presumably, the coverage will be in High-Def.

I know it might be a little early to start this thread, but I was
wondering if anyone had access to the nominal landing ground tracks for
STS-121, assuming an on-time liftoff on 1 July 2006 at 19:48GMT.  I
would specifically be interested in the primary and one (or two) orbit

NASASpaceFlight.com is reporting this morning that NASA has quietly
developed a device called the Automated Orbiter Rapid Prototype, which
can be installed on an Orbiter during an ISS safe haven scenario to
allow the damaged orbiter to attempt an unmanned landing.  Apparently

So after all the work to get the foam to stay on, someone bumps into a tank
and it needs a repair... sigh. I'd not want to be the chap who did that one.
Brian

A couple of points. if we are going to send men back to the moon, surely
they would want as much imagery as they can get? Yet they seem to be going
to crash the Smart spacecraft onto the moon in September, with still quite a
lot of fuel left if the amounts in the last report are ...

They'll blame the fireworkish failure on "terrists" - and so we'll be
living in a Fascist State soon enough.   Then we  will all Zieg Heil our
Mars Missioneers - the 'true heroes' of the Fatherland.   Only - this
time - it *will* be fake landings in studio settings and the huge ...

It is Thurs, 11:06am EDT (1506z).
 "NASA 906," a T-38, has been working over the Shuttle Landing
Facility and has been using freqs 126.65 and 264.8.  He has had comms
with "Weather" at KSC, and informed the ATC on 281.425 that he is

As I recall, the doomed Columbia flight was one that did NOT go to the
station. Now, I'm not an aerospace engineer, but this brings a
question to mind. Has there been any research into whether the ascent
profile/angle would have been different enough, if Colombia was going

Each of the past two times Atlantis has been stacked for a mission, the
preceeding mission had a problem, and Atlantis was destacked and sent
back to the OPF. But since Atlantis is not stacked this time, so we
should have no problems!

I have several questions? if katrina got rain in atlkantis  tank foam
how about the other tanks? wouldnt entrapped water cause hard to see
ice when the tank is filled? If this launches anyway griffin should be
fired.

Smart once and then dead lined.
Do you think DOW chemical has some involvement on "foam research" there,
buddy?
The NASA engineers have all been switchgrassed to the Mars Mission.

Today's Delta 2 launch preparations
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It is Wed 3:41pm EDT (1941z).
 A Delta 2 rocket carrying the Military's "Microsatellite Technology

You've trained your whole life.  This is probably your only chance to
get to space.  Are you going to "speak up"?  90 percent of space flight
careers started in the Military.   Take orders, don't rock the boat..
I actually consider NASA to be a side spin-off the Military ...