Space Forum / Shuttle / July 2009

Updated 15:38 24 July 2009 by Lisa Grossman
Ad Astra and NASA have agreed to test fire the rocket in space, attached
to the International Space Station in 2012 or 2013. Potentially, VASIMR
could provide the periodic boosts needed to keep the ISS in its orbit.

Hello, what is the frequency for earing space station or shuttle EVA's
i try to:
145.800 MHz NFM for digital packet radio
259.700 MHz  AM for audio ??

Well, so another one  leaves the ship then.. I wander what she will be doing
in the private sector. its a strange time to get a job there. In the middle
of a recession, if you can be enticed away, then someone must want her a
lot.

I can just hear the RSA: "In Russia, vee launch during blizzard; you
Amerikanz can't even launch in little bad wedder...."
And I think they're right.  For an area so prone to storms and other bad
weather, I just hope Orion and Ares 1 are built to a more weather-tolerant

So, did it show anything interesting about the foam loss?
Brian

I had the good fortune of seeing a recent launch for the first time.
The crowd applauded as a pair of military helicopters took off shortly
before launch--seen as a good omen that they'd get that bird off the
ground that day finally!

So, what is the problem with wearing wrist watches while working on eva
equipment. I heard the crew being reminded of this as they watched people
going in and out of the airlock compartment today.
Brian

Canadian TV last night aired a program on the efforts to get to Mars.
They focused on Zubrin (and some other guy, Metha ?) efforts to find a
way and then push for it. He is the one who came up with the "Mars
Direct", which he later had to change to 6* Mars direct by having to

since the biggest hoax in living memory.

Anyone noticed that the media channel real stream keeps falling off the
radar, so to speak. All I see is a reel media error and its disconnected.
Sometimes its just a few seconds, other times as much as an hour.
Windows media seems not to have this problem, so its either routing ...

What is the tube, radiating red light, which is insterted on the right upper arm
of the suit of the astronauts before entering the shuttle?
What is it's purpose?
TIA

I guess I missed it but why wasn't there another launch attempt today,
bad weather again?

http://www.wesh.com/cnn-news/19785390/detail.html
seems nasa is worried workers might sabotage things to keep program
running longer.
this besides risks of parts shortages and skilled worker attrition.

So, since there's so few Shuttle launches left, thinking about taking to
Florida this weekend for the STS-127 launch.
It sounds like we're past the major leak issue, and I haven't heard of any
others, so I'm hoping it goes.

Both RTLS and launch weather are no-gos at the 9 minute polling.
No expection of improvement, will lose the launch window. Thunderstorms
to the west of the site.
Scrub not yet announced.