Space Forum / Space Station / March 2007

Is this a good idea ??
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/29/space.marathon.ap/index.html
The article says Suni has run marathon's before but what happens if
she gets hurt ??

full article at

The European Space Agency's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) will begin
its programme's four-month long qualification process in April, which will help

Developing story -- tracking data is being refined regarding an
uncomfortably close pass of a spent rocket stage early Saturday
AM, possibly requiring a rocket burn to dodge.
When was the last time this had to be done?

Ok, not quite..
...
At the behest of her friend Charles Simonyi, a software pioneer who will be the
fifth tourist in space, Stewart has planned a gourmet menu to feed the crew at

In this era of Biological Research our scientist and Researchers are
taking the full-fledged step towards the conceptual, logical and
practical accuracy of the Research & Development by applying up-to-
dated approaches and technologies and techniques. We organize a vast

Jorge and I were discussing this briefly in I think it was
sci.space.history.
Generally a 'racetrack' design would appear to offer a safer design for
about 1/2 the station in the event that a fire or other problem cut off

Tonne per tonne of whatever dry-ice(CO2) that can be effectively shot at
the moon, and being that it's not the least bit intended as for orbiting
but intentionally thrusted as for directly impacting the mostly basalt
surface. Persay, how much pulverised lunar basalt is going to