Space Forum / Shuttle / May 2008

"Space station crew to NASA: 'Send plumber soon' "
By SETH BORENSTEIN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 27, 2008; 6:32 PM

Is there a link anywhere that tells what exactly is contained on the DVD?
I read there are 250,000 names and some sci fi stories.
Does anyone have anymore info on what the stories are and who wrote them?
I certainly hope Arthur C Clarke was amongst them

Mars Phoenix Lander Post Landing Briefing
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=
3703&Itemid=2
Mars Phoenix Lander Briefing - First Downlink of Data
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index ...

Why do I get the feeling, the few photos from the planet that shows
trees, are not Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlUlP4JUx6Y
When did you ever look up and see starscapes like that from Earth?

Mars Phoenix Lander Update Briefing - May 27
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=
3707&Itemid=2

Nice...
I'm willing to bet that it will find present or past signs of life...
Kinda cool knowing your name is on the thing too.. Well, in a DVD it is
carrying, but...

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/230000main_SS000EFF896228773_10CA8R8M1.jpg
Right of centre. Imagery fault?

Let us discuss the patent for the Submarine, which is now in the
public domain, not that any foreign governments ever cared since they
have been building them for years. Since my Grandfather built the
first Ring Gyro at Stanford Research years back, I think it wise to

Specifically with respect to Challenger, Columbia, and the Freedom of
Information Act, to what extent does this recent memo from George Bush
have the force of law?
Since Reagan/Bush and Challenger, SBU has been a nearly unpublicized

Mars Phoenix Lander Briefing - Landing Preview
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=
3699&Itemid=1
Mars Phoenix Lander Briefing - Entry Descent and Landing Overview .
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index ...

Anyone know the best way to watch live coverage of the Phoenix landing
on Mars?  Is NASA TV going to cover it are is there a website that would
be better?

Law enforcement is now intercepting text messages,
as proven by Operation Sudden Fall in San Diego.
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/sd050608.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20080506-1338-bn06sdsu2.html

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The first test flight of NASA's new ARES I
launch vehicle faces a five-week slip, constellation program officals
said today. Delays in the production of new external tanks for the
space shuttle will likely force a delay in the upcoming Hubble Space

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Space_Shuttle_%28HRSI_tile%29.png
Are they (coming from someone who wouldn't know where to begin right
now) be possible to make from home using relatively easily acquirable
materials? And at a relatively good price (I don't really fancy spending

I've never seen flames coming out the back of the shuttle, day or night,
before...