Space Forum / Space Station / November 2003

Russia's Secret: Did Space Station Nearly Die The Day It Was Born?
MSNBC // Technology & Science // SPACE NEWS
Silent suspense surrounded birth of space station
Russians recall glitch that required fast thinking after 1998’s initial

My daughter just turned 3 and God knows why, she wants a space station.  As
a good dad I said : "Sure honey" and then I realized what I got into.  So,
now, I wonder if there are any plans of MIR.  I'd like to build a model
version of the old station.  I'm good at model but I have no ...

Arming outer space
By Ruth Rosen
Thursday, November 13, 2003
San Francisco Chronicle

There is plenty of evidence that NASA is not always very good with
numbers, witness the problem it had with the Mars Climate Orbiter
insertion(metric?  English?  does it matter?), numbering Apollo missions
(Apollo 1 (?), Apollo 4 (what were #s 2&3?), the ASTP Apollo (no

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington           November 19, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1234)
Kylie Moritz

   IDEA FOR PASSIVE SOLAR MEGALOPOLIS
   The following is an overview of an idea for plug and play space
stations.
       Compartments are hollow units built much like a ship, shaped for

ISS On-Orbit Status 18 Nov 2003
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except as noted previously
or below. As of this morning, the station has circled Earth 28512 times,
having put 755 million miles (1.2 billion km) behind it -- or roughly the

Replacement ISS "Lunar Space Elevator hauls lunar rodents to/from
LSE-CM/ISS"
Not that I'm smarter than yourself, more like I'm not nearly smart
enough to know when I'm outgunned. Never the less, since I'm already

ISS On-Orbit Status 15 Nov 2003
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except as noted previously
or below.  Saturday rest day.
After wakeup (1:00am EST), morning chores and breakfast, CDR/SO Michael

No excerpts from this piece; the whole piece should be read.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=895
"You Can't Explore the Universe if You Sit on Your Hands"
Keith Cowing, Editor, NASA Watch

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington                  November 12, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-4769)
Jerry Berg

i was just wondering if someone knew how much would it cost a private
citizen to go in a space flight? or maybe to the moon?
pasky

With NASA budgets for manned space flight not looking too rosy these
days, since the Columbia disaster, and any future direction on whether
to continue the ailing Shuttle program for decades more or to invest
in a whole new ball game for future orbital transfers - all looking

ISS On-Orbit Status 11 Nov 2003
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except as noted previously
or below.
FE Alexander Kaleri continued the latest maintenance cycle on the Russian

ISS On-Orbit Status 12 Nov 2003
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except as noted previously
or below.
Flight Engineer Kaleri conducted the regular bi-weekly status checkup of the