Space Forum / Space Station / December 2004

I think they should bake cookies on the ISS and sell them on
Earth.Many people would buy genuine space-cookies for Christmas and
pay $$$ for them !

This topic of RELOCATING ISS to the moon/Earth L1 (mutual
gravity-well/gateway) position was never something that I'd intended as
an argument as to why it shouldn't or couldn't be accomplished, as I'm
actually looking for the positive side of the many issues which I

(darn Google Groups interface has stopped letting me post follow-ups; it
says "Unable to retrieve message 10rhp144ojj1q45@corp.supernews.com". So,
a new thread it must be...
I originally wrote:

I am looking for either:
    NASA documents SSP 41004 and 41148 (CBM interface and CBM
    to module interface docs, as I understand it)
OR

12.10.04
Melissa Mathews
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1272)

Hitting a bullet with a bullet amazingly worked in some of the recent
anti-missle tests.  But, I just can't seeing the military depending on this
"mass impact direct-hit" mode of interception in the real world.
Do you suppose that the tests were done with inert warheads just as a

Jeff Findley (jeff.findley@ugs.nojunk.com) wrote:

humans to moon

NY Times EDITORIAL
NASA's Budgetary Gift Horse
Published: November 29, 2004
The space program fared remarkably well in the huge appropriations bill

Astronaut appetites strain station supplies -- NASA drafting evacuation plan
Dec 3, 9:19 PM
[JimO: I've seen the same report -- doesn't seem quite so catastrophic to
me]

Glenn Mahone/Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington                  Dec. 7, 2004
(Phone: 202/358-1898/4769)
James Hartsfield

Space station future adrift
By Philip Chien
 27 November 2004 //  SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041126-121743-6276r.htm

MSNBC (Oberg) - NASA, Russians forging a deal for rides
Crew-hours would be swapped for seats on Soyuz
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6640347/
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

Has anyone seen a press release regarding JSC starting construction of the
$4M Martian crew quarantine facility? With all the silliness in the paper
recently regarding Martian face eating virus, I'm surprised no one brought
this up that JSC is ahead of the game.

Here's a link to a video clip from a show I did Wednesday
for Canada's "Daily Planet" news on their 'Discovery channel'.
I discuss the significance of the Russian 'Kliper' spaceship design.
http://www.exn.ca/video/?video=exn20041201-russian-space.asx

12.02.04
Mike Rein
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321/867-2468