Space Forum / Shuttle / March 2007

I was wondering what was the legal implications of owning a flown tile
from the shuttle? Not one of the gel packaged ones from the KSC store
but a flown scrapped one? I know columbia and Challenger are out but
there seems to be a few of them out and about for sale.

After this past weekend's damage to the external fuel tank due to
hailstorm, I was wondering why the shuttle sits out on the launch pad
for so long before launch?

Anybody have the recent status of STS-117?  Can the tank be repaired?  Can
NASA still fly in late April?  Any damage to the leading edge of the wings?
I just checked www.nasa.gov, but didn't see much information.
Danny Deger

Why should the government be out of space???

I worked with the Russians in 1993 when NASA was looking into buying a Soyuz
as the station's lifeboat.  They told me their goal at the time was
permanent manned presence in space at minimum cost.  If they got some real
science back, great.  But to them the Mir itself was a big ...

Can someone tell me a link that does in fact end in either a playable file
or an on line play that works for the readiness briefing this last week.
None of the links on the page give in the main thread work. The file is not
at the location, or is the wrong name, or in the case of ...

Was there really an Otto Binder?  Did he work for NASA?
According  to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed
radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed
NASA's broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange:

With Atlantis now a sick puppy, are there any possibility that Endeavour
would be given STS117 and Atlantis retasked to 118 ?
This would give them more time to fix Atlantis and its tank, without
delaying ISS assembly so much.

According to the flame trench at florida today.
Given the risk the shouldnt fly that tank

Feb. 27, 2007
Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-3749

STS-117 Status Briefing - February 27
Space Shuttle Atlantis will roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building
for repair after Monday's hail storm.
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