Space Forum / Shuttle / December 2008

So your out walking your dog and stumble onto a identifable part of
coulmbia.....
would nasa want it back? If you gave it back what would happen to it?
could you sell it on e bay?

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/12/11/ap5811157.html
sounds bizzare:(

How much extra security is the shuttle afforded when piggybacking from CA.
to FLA?
Chase planes etc?

I wonder if the Japanese said, I'll pay for a Shuttle system and all jigs
etc to make a flyable system, would the US go for it?
Brian

This is a rethorical question, so no need to spout insults about how
unrealistic, unsafe it would be. I am more interested in the raw
mechanics of it. (and a "one off" exploit, not doing the stuff below all
the time).

For the past few decades, it had been commonly observed that the US
consumers opted for gas guzzlers like SUVs, pickups and other large
vehicles while European customers chose smaller and more fuel
efficient cars. However, this trend is changing according to the

All of the orbiters (except Challenger) have gone through Orbiter
Maintenance Down Periods (OMDP) at Palmdale, California before 2002.
Just about every spaceflight immediately before an orbiter's trip to
Palmdale landed at Kennedy Space Center.

With Obama promising to enact budget cuts anyone think there is still
a chance of the AMS mission being approved or, even more unlikley, any
after that???????

Did they not lose a camera in a similar accident a couple of years back?
Maybe there is a case for  some netting  to catch such things.
Mind you, that could be more of a problem in itself.
Its the law of Sod you know. The one time you want something to hold, it

I built a EL touch panel display back in the early 90's for some shadowy
operators (BDM, Hughes, USAF) and I've noticed that the touch panel/EL
display used by NASA at HSC looks like my little project. (The orange
touch panels )

What will LHC give us: the particle of God, or magnetic trap of Devil?
Magnetic trap is an axial-symmetric magnetic analogue of a black hole.
It is 10^36 stronger than gravitational black hole.
CERNs specialists do not know about the magnetic trap yet. If

Landing to occur at Edwards AFB at 3:19pm Eastern Time.  That's 8:19am here
in Melbourne, Australia.