Space Forum / Shuttle / November 2007

Marvelous shuttle mission of Discovery! Congratulations!
Overall the shuttle is in IMHO a very effective and successful manned space
operation system, unfortunately expensive. The shuttle never suffered in
serious failures, its power and capabilities is impressive for a more than

Sorry for the OT question, but this has been nagging me for some time.
Hubble is in orbit around the earth, and as such, travels at a great
speed as well as constantly changing its direction of travel (nature of
a circular trajectory).

Question:  What is the cost to put a pound in orbit now?  Because I want to
send my one of my flashlights to spend some time in space.  Was Lucas paying
for this?

Nov. 21, 2007
John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0602

The technology and ingenuity already exists to reduce the threat of
global warming. This includes solutions that will stimulate the
American economy by creating jobs, saving consumers money, and
protecting our national security.

I downloaded the nice Orbiter Space flight Simulator from
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html... some days ago.
My taget is to rendez-vous my vessel (Atlantis) with the ISS. I am
using the cool manual on...

I listened to the sts 122 briefings etc, and a couple of questions came up
in my mind.
Firstly, if they are going to, look at the Sarj in one of the eva's,
presumably this means they have suspicions and need to see if they are

Point out NASA's "O-ring burnthrough" in this FOIA frame, from just
after aft-sep:
<http://mission51l.com/art/explosion.jpg>
If it was there before the aft band gave way, it should have showed up

http://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/enterprise.JPG
The Star Ship Enterprise was purposely designed as a flying saucer, to
make people reason out that "why would a flying saucer be pushed by
two jet engines, it would be more practical to have just a flying

I'm uncertain about where to place a question/debate: here on
s.s.station (whose seems to be the only two sci.space.* NG with
acceptable S/N ratio).
The question is about the viability/usefulness (in scientific terms) of

An Arianne 5 rocket has just launched a British military satellite
"SKYNET" into space.
You may all recall that SKYNET is the military system which will take
over the world and launch nuclear missiles to kill humans and deploy

If for some reason the shuttle would lack sufficient energy to make the
Cape Kennedy runway, could the Shuttle's on-board rocket engines be fired
up momentarily to give it the necessary boost to "stretch the glide?"
It would seem to me they must carry sufficient fuel reserves in ...

Can anyone point out why JEM will be launched ahead of Kibo and had
therefore to be parked temporarily at Harmony.
Albert

I was watching the STS-120 landing video, and I heard a call saying
"You are on energy approaching the hack"...
What exactly does this mean? Heading alignment circle?
What does "on energy" mean though.

South Korea is rushing to join the space race. But their astronaut
selection process has been slightly different from that of NASA:
They used a televised "reality TV" show to select 1 astronaut out of
thousands who had submitted applications. The "elimitations" were