Space Forum / Space Station / August 2004

I notice at Heavens Above,
http://www.heavens-above.com/issheight.asp?Session=kebgcedfnpnljggoifhpiiel
, that the recent ISS boosts
resulted in a greater than usual increase in altitude.  Is there

Will that effect flying in the US?
Given the US airline industry is on the edge of insolvency. Take US Air, they
may disappear even without any futher bad events.
HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Mike Rein
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
August 27, 2004
(Phone: 321/867-2468)

Russians will launch the FGB-2 modul as new "russian lab" in 2007 to the
ISS!

Russians present first model of "Kliper"! Looks great!
http://federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=477

0800 UTC Aug 23 2004
Voice of Russia
Klipper model built
The Russian space rocket corporation Energiya has assembled the model of

Korolev, Moscow Area
S.P. Korolev RSC Energia hosted the training sessions for Russian cosmonaut
Salizhan Sharipov and his backup cosmonaut Valeriy Tokarev under the Program
of International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 10 Crew.

When they load a Progress with rubbish, do the crewmembers have to calculate
total waste mass to allow ground people to calculate re-entry parameters ?
Or do they just load the puppy up to the brim, and once undocked, the ground
controllers fire an engine for a set number of seconds ...

It's a little old, but I ran across this last night:
http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/0400feat.html
An article from Civil Engineering Magazine, April 2000, on the truss
segments as seen from an engineering perspective. Quite interesting, to

Exdrone, BAI Aerosystems, Inc.
http://www.baiaerosystems.com/exdrone.html
X-47A Pegasus, Northrop Grumman Ryan
http://www.capitol.northgrum.com/programs/pegasus.html

COULD THE ISS BECOME A RUSSO-EUROPEAN PROJECT?
linked from http://www.spacetoday.net/
2004-08-05 16:37      MOSCOW. August 3. (RIA Novosti political commentator
Andrei Kislyakov.)

How many and are they complete ready to fly?
HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Several recent articles of mine on space topics have been added to my
home page at www.jamesoberg.com, for your amusement....
This story from last week contains two items so far not picked up
in any other news story: the space station was pushed off attitude

What we really need is a orbital construction platform to construct larger
craft on. And big enough to house some labratories for research and/tourism

Spacewalkers cope with phantom menace
How a weak jet of water and a flawed contingency plan led to a
communications breakdown in orbit
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5592615