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Posts: 3391 (02/06/02 6:44 PM) Board Leprechaun |
Three things within the last week:
Criteria for Space Tourists Shuttle Ops Moving to Florida Nuclear Powered Spacecraft Program Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (02/07/02 12:35 AM) SARS Incubator |
What's that nuclear thingamajigger about?
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Posts: 3391 (02/07/02 7:00 PM) Board Leprechaun |
Apparently they want to build a lot more nuclear powered spacecraft instead of relying on solar power. They have a few left over but they want it in practically every spacecraft.
Scaling Back on Every Project They have severely cut the budget or stopped 90% of their projects. Landers, deep space craft, orbiters, you name it. Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?
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Posts: 3391 (02/07/02 7:16 PM) Board Leprechaun |
Mars Odyssey Deploys Main Antenna
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (03/23/02 2:24 AM) SARS Incubator |
Second-generation NASA communications satellite stranded in space. Agency contemplates rescue mission.
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (05/26/02 12:28 PM) SARS Incubator |
Massive water reservoirs found on Mars. In light of this breakthrough discovery, NASA has unofficially stated that it may commit to a Mars expedition within 20 years' time. Melted, the reservoir would create a planetary ocean, 500 meters deep.
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Posts: 4512 (05/29/02 2:35 AM) Audio Ambassador |
Wow this water story is a really hot one. What does everyone think? Life there now? Before? Started there moved here? I kind of suspect that there will be signs of past life there, but not current. No way to possibly know unless they (NASA or who else?) finally go there.
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1 SL Chris ZS |
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Posts: 3391 (05/29/02 4:50 PM) Board Leprechaun |
I'm not surprised in the least. We always knew there was water on mars, huge amounts of it even.
"You did not just hear that torpedo self-destruct, it exploded against the hull of that submarine. And I *flips open and shut identity* was never here."-James Earl Jones, the Hunt for Red October
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Posts: 6698 (02/01/03 1:26 PM) SARS Incubator |
SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA FEARED LOST.
Seven astronauts on board, including first Israeli. Columbia lost contact with Mission Control 16 minutes before its scheduled landing at the Cape in Florida. Debris spotted in Texas. story.news.yahoo.com/news...ighting_dc In the room the women come and go
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Nicholas |
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Posts: 6698 (02/01/03 2:08 PM) SARS Incubator |
More in-depth: www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/spa...index.html
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Talking of Michelangelo. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot |
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Posts: 6698 (02/01/03 2:48 PM) SARS Incubator |
I just need to keep my brain preoccupied, so I'm going to go through some possible ramifications from this tragedy.
The Israeli astronaut in question, Ilan Ramon, was Israel's very first -- Israeli television was planning to have live coverage of the shuttle landing. Their nation has been plunged into a state of shock, and I suspect that it'll be a very long time coming before their space program ever resumes development. * * * Proponents for a nuclear form of space travel scored a major victory a couple of weeks ago, when it was announced that Pres. Bush would extend NASA's budget by over a billion dollars for research into possible nuclear technologies. For decades now, advocates for nuclear space engines have insisted that such components were absolutely necessary for deep-space travel. Consider: A mission to Mars would take only 2 months with a nuclear engine, as opposed to nearly a year with current technologies (including a dangerous extraterrestrial mission on Mars, in which astronauts would have to engineer their own return fuel). However, as initial reports have already indicated, Shuttle Columbia's wreckage has been strewn over a debris field that's easily hundreds of miles in size. NASA officials have already warned the public to stay away from all shuttle pieces, as the fuel that is used in the orbiter is extremely toxic, and can suffocate a man within 48 hours of exposure. Anti-nuclear groups (whose numbers are significant) have long cited the possibility of irradiated debris fields as the best argument against nuclear technologies in space. In other words, the pro-nuclear victory that was scored with the administration might prove to be very short-lived. * * * Lastly, there's another STS mission still scheduled for the beginning of March. Its mission task list includes the relieving of the International Space Station's current crew, in addition to the delivery of another ISS module. Now, the 3 astronauts on the ISS might have to stay onboard for several more months, pending the conclusion of the investigation into Columbia's destruction, or, they might be forced to use the emergency Soyuz return vehicle. In the room the women come and go
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Posts: 6698 (02/01/03 3:00 PM) SARS Incubator |
 Workers console each other at the Vehicle Assembly Building, Cape Canaveral  Multiple contrails as the shuttle is seen breaking up over Texas  Israelis await news at the Cape  Worker lights oil lamps in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem In the room the women come and go
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Posts: 4512 (02/01/03 6:06 PM) Audio Ambassador |
Damn. What a thing to wake up to. It hurts to think of all those people killed, and it hurts to think of how far it'll set back the Space Program.
I remember perfectly where I was when the Challenger news broke. Now this. And every time NASA tries to take up a non-NASA person this has happened. 2/3 space fatalities occured in Space Shuttles now. |
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Posts: 361 (02/02/03 1:07 AM) |
You know, I don't see why this would set back the program so far? Would anyone care to fill me in?
And, yes, this is a VERY tragic event. Tis I, the Great Fladariagarblenockendorfgen
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Posts: 3391 (02/02/03 7:33 AM) Board Leprechaun |
Flad: NASA's budget is teeny, there is probably no provision in it for replacing a shuttle. The shuttles are suppose to serve for a long time, this will set far too many time tables back. My biggest fear is that the Bush administration will somehow use this to justify cutting NASA's budget even more, or to change the structure of NASA radically.
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Posts: 6698 (02/02/03 9:31 PM) SARS Incubator |
Remains from all seven crew members found.
story.news.yahoo.com/news...remains_dc In the room the women come and go
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Posts: 4512 (02/02/03 10:09 PM) Audio Ambassador |
Bush is actually pretty pro-NASA because he's pro SDI and the space shuttle is an integral part of all that. It is more likely that public opinion will be greater against space exploration and that Congressional funding might reflect that. Personally I'd like to see them fund space travel and not warfare, but that's not the way our government likes to work.
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Posts: 6698 (02/02/03 11:17 PM) SARS Incubator |
I hear you.
There is the scant possibility of some progress coming out of this event. NASA administrators might be able to make the case for a new shuttle fleet. Remember a few years ago, they actually asked several aeronautics companies like Lockheed Martin and Boeing to come up with plans for a new shuttle? Some good ideas were drawn up, but in the end, Congress refused to fund it. Maybe now they will because the way I see it, the shuttle program, as it stands today, is irreversibly crippled. In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot |
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Posts: 633 (02/03/03 1:39 AM) COBRA Commander |
Bush's speech yesterday in response to the event sounded like he was very much against NASA's funding being cut because of this loss. He didn't saay it outright, but he mentioned several times how we must still pursue what they were discovering.
"A great power sleeps within you. Give it form and it will give you strength."- Kingdom Hearts
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Posts: 6698 (02/12/03 4:07 AM) SARS Incubator |
NASA releases a recording of Mission Control's last conversation before the loss of the Columbia:
story.news.yahoo.com/news...ecording_6 In the room the women come and go
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Posts: 6698 (02/26/03 11:47 PM) SARS Incubator |
E-mails between NASA engineers shows concern over possible shuttle burn-up, 24 hours before Columbia destruction.
story.news.yahoo.com/news...igation_44 In the room the women come and go
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