Space Forum / Space Station / November 2005

Has NASA given any hints on what they intend to do with Quest after the
Shuttle stops visiting the station ?
Currently, only the shuttle is able to refuel the O2 and N2 tanks in
Quest. However, Quest has its own high pressure pumps to pull the gases

** 18 November **
Space station Commander Bill McArthur and Cosmonaut Valery Tokarev
relocated their Soyuz TMA spacecraft from the station's Pirs docking
compartment to the Earth-facing port of the Zarya module.

Hello there everyone,
I joined this competition callled The International Space Settlement
Design Competition organized by Nasa. In th request for proposal of the
competition that is given to me and my team, they require us to design

Boeing to Discuss Space Station Testbed Options at AAS Conference
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8, 2005 - Boeing [NYSE: BA] will be among aerospace industry
leaders, scientists and NASA officials gathering next week near the Johnson
Space Center to pick up where the Space Exploration Architecture ...

November 7, 2005
Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone 202/358-1979/5241)

Are they considering to use the SDVHLLV to launch the remaining station
modules that the shuttle can't/won't deliver?
How about launching a totally complete Skylab class space station?
Could it boost the first stage to LEO too and do a drylab/wetlab

  "Defects Push Back Lauch of Europe's ATV Until May 2007"
  Peter B. de Selding, Paris
  Multiple defects in hardware and software have been found in
  Europe's unmanned space tug and will delay the launch of the

Hello every one!!!
can anyone suggest an efficient orbit to fly a space craft from the L1
lagrange point from earth to mars sun-synchronous orbit?
Thank you!!

We are back in the game.  New news!

In email discussions over the air-leak
on the Soyuz landing, this thought
occurred to me that I felt worth
sharing more widely:

November 4, 2005
Dwayne Brown/Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1726/1761)

Soyuz air leak during descent October 11
From information that I have received,
the air leak in the Soyuz TMA-6 on October 11
was from about 780 mmHg to 680 mmHg

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051103/ap_on_sc/nasa>, this on Griffen's
latest testimony:
<quote>

MSNBC.COM (Oberg)-Dangling strap to blame for scary space leak?
MSNBC.COM posted story is below the double-line. Additional non-published
paragraphs follow immediately:
Other retired veterans of NASA's Mission Control in Houston told  msnbc.com

Haven't heard much recently about Elektron and the yield of the oxygen candles
(e.g., dud percentage).  Or I missed it (for which I do apologize).
Er, so how's it going?