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they are blowimg up shuttle into space today, we gona have nice display of fireworks
stoned said:they are blowimg up shuttle into space today, we gona have nice display of fireworks
Do we get alaska back in return?Townsend said:![]()
I think Canadian taxes should be used to supplement the shuttle program so that United States can build new space shuttles without putting the cost on the American taxpayer’s shoulders.
Smurf said:Do we get alaska back in return?
Smurf said:Do we get alaska back in return?
DeathKnight said:It was a successful launch.
BTW, Does anyone the maximum speed that the shuttle reached?
zanazzi78 said:I think the shuttle reaches a speed of approx 26000 mph!
NASA's ISS page.Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer John Phillips are awaiting the arrival of the first Space Shuttle to visit the International Space Station since Endeavour left in December 2002.
Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., at 10:39 a.m. EDT to begin its two-day chase of the Station. Discovery is scheduled to dock with the ISS at 7:27 a.m. EDT Thursday.
Discovery will deliver supplies and equipment, much of which is in the Italian-built Multi-Purpose Logistics Module named Raffaello. The STS-114 crew will conduct three spacewalks, which will include the replacement of one of the Station’s motion control gyroscopes and the outfitting of the Station’s exterior.
Clausius2 said:Each time I see shuttle lifting off I admire your country. We feel everybody americans in this day.
Congratulations.
stoned said:you are right in some way, but it could be much better if americans would spend 300 billion $ + on space exploration instead on killing people in iraq and around the world.
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - NASA grounded future shuttle flights Wednesday because a big chunk of insulating foam flew off Discovery's fuel tank during liftoff - as it did in Columbia's doomed mission - but this time apparently missed the spacecraft .
"Until we're ready, we won't go fly again. I don't know when that might be," shuttle program manager Bill Parsons told reporters in a briefing Wednesday evening.
He and other managers do not believe the flying debris that snapped off the external fuel tank harmed Discovery, threatening a safe return of its seven astronauts.
"Call it luck or whatever, it didn't harm the orbiter," Parsons said. If the foam had broken away earlier in flight - when the atmosphere is thicker, increasing the acceleration and likelihood of impact - it could have caused catastrophic damage to Discovery.
With no replacement on the horizon, they're really between a rock and a hard place on this one. I don't think they have much choice but to keep the shuttle operational for another 15 years.Ivan Seeking said:The shuttle program is grounded until further notice.
This may be the death rattle...?
FredGarvin said:Bring back the Saturn 5.
Ivan Seeking said:We can't, a good share of the documentation was destroyed.
Mk said:A popular urban legend, started in 1996, states that NASA has lost or destroyed the blueprints or other plans for the Saturn V. Plans still exist on microfilm at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
stoned said:for the price of one shuttle launch they could easilly design and build good reusable automatic launch system.