Space Forum / Shuttle / July 2006

How do they watch out for this problem on spacecraft of this age? I'd think
there might be problems in high stress areas by now.
Brian

I see they are going to try and get Discovery ready for a rescue shuttle
for Atlantis' flight in August, then fly again in December. So what's
Endeavour doing these days? Wouldn't it be easier to have Endeavour play
rescue shuttle for Atlantis?

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Where does NASA get the huge amount of liquiefied oxygen and especially
the even colder liquified hydrogen for the shuttle?  Is it produced on
site at Cape Canaveral?  Or shipped in via rail car etc by some
contractor like Air Products?

This is really just a comment.
When Discovery landed, the APUs were still running and they sounded very
like some older car windscreenwiper motors, only louder of course.
Also there was an accompanying sound that reminded me of a hedgehog

Are any of the STS-121 crew assigned to future shuttle missions? How
can we find out when they are assigned missions in the future? Thanks!
Mark Lopa

NASA TV will no doubt be overloaded, so where are the best places to
view the launch online?
Thanks

Because they sure seem scratchy? Is this just added for effect? Why don't
they go digital? I am guessing because the voice coms are some sort of
seperate system that would be most robust FM on set frequency? It does seem
kind of stupid though, especially after listening to some ...

With this succesful recent flight, are shuttle operations now returning
to normal ?
Are there still daylight launch restrictions ? Or is there still one
more flight to go through before that restriction is lifted ?

I noticed a bunch of school kids on the TV this weekend that were able
to watch the landing of Discovery from an erected viewing platform
pretty close to the runway...anyone know if there are tickets for
these?

Hi, how EVA are planed for STS 115 ?
The astronauts will be retrated or removed the P6 ?

When does a shuttle crew look at each other together for the last time
and then go their separate ways? It must be kind of sad, when they have
spent so much time training--especially these pre-Columbia crews--and
flown a mission together to finally wrap it up and move on. Something

I don't see any reference as to if they determined if the APU leak was
N2 or Hydrazine.  Anyone got any information?
Thanks
David

I note that there seems to be no sound on the new srb camera videos this
time. I enjoyed all the clanking and banging on the 114 video. Not being
able to see these things now is a real annoyance.
Brian

I just watched the video of the landing, and i noticed that the sides looked
a lot more charred than normal.  After quickly looking on NASA's site for
previous landing images I found one from STS112, the comparison is
remarkable.  Is this a big deal?  Has this been seen before?