Space Forum / Shuttle / February 2008

This just in, BREAKING NEWS,  NASA TV carried a conversation where
ground informed the shuttle crew that they have found no significicant
issue with the right OMS pod (refering to the blanker anomaly) and that
the Right OMS pod was cleared for re-entry.

February 11, 2008: 02:38 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) --
A former Boeing (NYSE:BA) Co. engineer has been indicted on charges of
economic espionage in the theft of company trade secrets related to

Hi, while listening this afternoon, I noted some fairly  terse requests from
the Shuttle for two pmcs, so wondered if there was a potential serious
medical issue on the Shuttle?
If a member of a crew is ill, and cannot perform  the tasks required, what

Anyone know if the plan is to find a way to get this back on this flight, or
do they need to  wait till a suitable clamp or strap system is made due to
its weight and awkward shape?
Brian

On his libelously disparaging website, one of this groups' more
outspoken Lockheed employees (at JSC) begrudgingly concedes:
"One of [Maxson's] more interesting claims is that the two SRBs
crossed paths while obscured by the cloud created by the release of

Now that the ECO sensor problem has being conclusively solved;
what does this say for the previous flights that had to be delayed
when problems occured pre launch ? and were then launched !
Johno

I'd seen a lot of headers about this thing, but was never sure what it
was until I saw The Universe on Teusday.  An orbiting satellite that
lowers a platform on a 60,000 mile long cable?  Is it even possible or
just a far off dream?

Good evening,
About 6:20 pm today (Friday 8 February 2008), a shuttle passed
overhead here in South West England.
I saw a strange phenomenon, and I wonder if anyone here can explain

If they reach the ISS on Saturday, what will they be doing from now
until then?  They're already in orbit.  Does it take that long to get
there, or do they have 2 days of other work to take care of first?
Also, what's the procedure for changing orbit?  If they're orbiting at

Seems to be a lot of dross on here of late, so what is happening tomorrow,
is it still go, or has the weather intervened.
Brian

...Did anybody else notice the object at ET sep? Between the port wing and
ET, long and skinny, 30+ RPM?

Kudos NASA on a clean launch and nailin those ECO sensor issues.
Great to have a bird up there again.
--
Todd H.  

Is it up the east coast again?

ARROWs flying Shuttle CAP mission
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It is 10:19am EST (1519z).
"Arrow 01" flight (Eglin F-15Cs) have been up with Huntress on 252.0

...Flex hose on the launch pad?
Is that what they were talking about and wrote a DR for?