Space Forum / Shuttle / December 2006

Commentator announces that the cloud cover is now "red" and too low, and
switches to some prerecorded video instead of letting us listen to the
conversations to the crew which would undoubtedly involve someone
communicating to the crew the news of clouds being too low.

I found a FANTASTIC Shuttle VIDEO from the latest Shuttle Launch
in 2006, its THE BEST i ever seen.!!!
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OPEN HERE:   http://www.space.tegoor.nl

After holding at T-5:00 for an additional 4.5 minutes, the weather at KSC
(cloud cover) was still out of acceptable values and the launch was scrubbed.
Interestingly, they waited until the launc window had been exceeded before
making the announcement.

NASA officials have set the next launch attempt for 8:47 p.m. EST on
Dec. 9.
for the UK it's sunday 1:47 p.m.
for the rest of Europe it's sunday 2:47 p.m

According to the new Shuttle manifest posted 1 Dec...
http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/shuttle/manifest.txt
...the Early Ammonia Servicer is now scheduled to be returned by
STS-118 Endeavour in June. The EAS was recently the subject of debate

Members of our list may also be interested in viewing this article on
SPACE.com concerning visibility of the upcoming night launch of
Discovery that is scheduled for Thursday evening:
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/061205_shuttle_spotting.html_

Just a general question to the group as I can't do any research on this
issue due to web restrictions.  I'm wondering how the gimbals on the SRB's
are controlled and whether there have been any issues / glitches in the
development of the system that controlling them.  I'm also ...

Well aside from the weather not, cooperating, it seems two other
problems have popped up.  CNN (cnn.com) is reporting that there was a
power surge out on the launch pad, and they have cleared the SRB's and
the ET but they are still looking at the Orbiter (not surprising

STS -116 Commentary as Countdown Begins
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1228
Fitness check flight engineer Thomas Reiter
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1227

Greetings All,
Its interesting how some things just work out.  I have the next two
weeks off from work as scheduled vacation time.  There just happens to
be a night time Shuttle launch scheduled for Thursday, and I just

What if Bill Gates were to offer $1 billion to the first person to achieve
orbital flight twice in one week using a fully reusable space craft. Could
it be done in less than ten years and without any government assistance?

Are all the astronauts who'll fly the remaining shuttle flights already
in the program, or will another class be selected?
Or will the next class selected in the future be for the
next-generation of space travel only?

Just saw this on eBay and thought some of the folks on here might be
interested:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180057367902&ssPageName=ADME:
B:EF:US:2

Software cutoff at 22% planned impulse.
See Harwood's sober and detailed discussion,
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts116/061129frr/
as well as the Agence France Presse rewrite of TASS: