Space Forum / Space Station / February 2005

REPORT: new NASA head -- Dan Crippen, economist and public health systems
expert
Keith Cowing's usually-reliable  'NASA WATCH' says new NASA head will be Dan
Crippen.

Space.com ran a story that claimed two NASA scientists had a private
meeting with space officials and informed them they had strong evidence
that there is current life on Mars.  Further, the article claimed the
two scientists informed the space officials that they had given the

Space station chief wary of haven plan
Fri Feb 4, 2005 5:16 AM GMT
By Irene Klotz
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JimO: This is the same guy, five years ago, who blamed the Canadian woman
Judith Lapierre for all the
tensions in the space isolation simulator when she was such a spoilsport
about being french kissed by

Crew Checks Out Exercise Equipment
After an off-duty day Sunday, the Expedition 10 crewmembers -- Commander
Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov -- got to work Monday
performing scientific experiments and routine maintenance.

Pravda: Space cooperation with the USA to ruin Russia's space industry
02/09/2005 19:04
   Russia's adherence to American plans might therefore imply many years of
setback and financial losses for the Russian space industry

ISS potty breaks, crew dons masks, goggles to repair
from spaceref.com, Saturday's on-orbit status report:
 In the SM, the FE completed the weekly SOZh/ECLSS servicing tasks, which
today were extended for some non-routine IFM (inflight maintenance)

Astronaut Dad on Duty
02.08.05
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/astronaut_dad.html
Life for Astronaut Mike Fincke has certainly changed since his launch for a

Feb 5 ISS on-orbit status report:
"As of last night (5:00pm), the Elektron O2 generator was functioning
nominally in 50 amps mode, after both its primary and backup micropumps had
shut down yesterday three times over 24 hours. [After the first two times,

We should remove one or two moons from Jupiter and bring them into
Earth's orbit and use them to build space stations !
We just have to invent a tractor-beam for that and a tractor-beam
should be doable in 5 years.

Msnbc.com (Oberg): Spacewalk thruster incident alarms NASA
Coordination breakdown could have led to toxic exposure
Longer front page teaser: "Coordination problems during last week's
otherwise successful spacewalk could have exposed the space station's two

Okay to hell with it, shoot me down if you have to but I think that
"Ahad" guy had a neat idea and was on the right track with his
"Celestial Titanic" ship:
http://uk.geocities.com/aa_spaceagent/restricted/earth-ring.html

Okay to hell with it, shoot me down if you have to but I think that
"Ahad" guy had a neat idea and was on the right track with his
"Celestial Titanic" ship:
http://uk.geocities.com/aa_spaceagent/restricted/earth-ring.html