Space Forum / Shuttle / October 2008

There was some garbled news item on uk radio this morning about them trying
to bring it back to life on an 18 year old system or something. Is there
some new problem, or is this the old problem?
Brian

Russia sends tourists in space.
China is building its own version of Soyuz with manned space flights.
India has now launched a satellite to go to the moon.
The media do make it look like India and China are coming up really

Wher ar all the posts? I havent seen any for days?
Where did everyone go?

I wonder why there is static noise in the astronaut communications
with earth?
Since we can send TV signals to satellite and beam it down with crispy
voice, I thought today's technology is able to eliminate/prevent those

Just curious.  Did the Phoenix take any video on the Mars?  I googled
a little, but didn't find any.
If it was not designed to take any videos, why?

Currently, the use of solar panels is on very small scale compared to
the use of fossil fuels. This does not go for just solar energy, but
also wind energy, geothermal, and tidal. The use of renewable
electricity only makes up for a small percentage of a nations actual

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6030998.html
Hubble mission postponed until next year.
Looks like another part failed over the weekend, so NASA is getting a new
one and spending time training the crew on its replacement.

There was a lot of skeptics out there about my theories about how a
shuttle can be sent to the moon and back. I am still convinced it can
be done. I decided tp do a little more research to prove my point. I
was around during the Apollo days and I remember the burn of the

Get the real story at space.com.   Jumping to conclusions never helped
anyone.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080929-shuttle-hubble-update.html
Halfway down the mention of where we stand for real will be next