Place your bets on Space Shuttle launch
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UPDATED: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 03:22
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Shuttle Discovery races skyward
Yeah well, you'd hope so really wouldn't you.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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So what's the odds in Vegas? Can't be good, after giant chunks of foam fell off the shuttle overnight, from a giant crack running the length of the external fuel line, then more chunks fell off during launch, when they can do even more damage. What'd ya expect for your $1.5-billion styrofoam "cure"?
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Discovery ruled safe for lift-off
BBC News
4 July 2006
The space shuttle Discovery will launch as planned on Tuesday despite the discovery of a defect on its fuel tank, Nasa officials have confirmed.
Engineers in Florida said a crack in the insulation foam lining the tank was not considered to be a serious problem and did not need to be repaired.
A small triangle of material was seen to flake away from the container during a routine check.
The flake fell from a cracked region of foam covering a bracket on the tank which holds a fuel pipe carrying liquid oxygen.
It is a region that is known to expand and contract during launch activities.
Engineers believe ice built up in the area after rainfall on Sunday, and that it crushed the piece of foam when the tank expanded on being drained after the cancelled launch.
Foam-shedding has been a persistent problem for the American shuttle programme, and was responsible for the catastrophic loss of the Columbia vehicle and its crew of seven in 2003.
On that occasion, a suitcase-sized chunk of material punched a hole in the ship's left wing during take-off, opening the orbiter to the destructive superheated gases experienced in a re-entry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5137462.stm
The Discovery orbiter has blasted away from the Kennedy Space Center - on a hot and sunny US Independence Day.
The shuttle flight is the first of 2006 and only the second since the catastrophic loss of the Columbia orbiter three years ago.
There was some concern among US space agency (Nasa) officials after several pieces of debris appeared to fall off the external fuel tank shortly after lift-off.
"About two minutes and 47 seconds, give or take, we saw three, perhaps four, pieces come off," said Wayne Hale, the shuttle programme manager.
He added that it was unclear whether the objects were insulating foam or "something else", but said it was too high to cause damage to the craft.
Engineers will continue to scrutinise detailed photos of the latest lift-off to check on the structural integrity of Discovery.
And when the vehicle nears the space station on Thursday, it will perform a backflip so that the ISS crew can inspect further the shuttle's heat-resistant surfaces, particularly on its belly.
At least one of the walks will be devoted to testing materials and repair techniques that could be used to fix the shuttle's surface tiles in the event of launch damage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5146866.stm
Do you notice that all the video on NASA TV fails to show any stars, and the video always fails on the dark side of Earth?
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
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Famous Last Words
"The coolest thing for me is hanging by a window just after sunrise and watch the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the Earth moves underneath. My eyes are really glued to the outside. It is just absolutely amazing, magical, wonderful thing to do that."
-Dr Kawpana Chawla, who was slowly cooked in curry sauce on Columbia Space Shuttle
"You are in the blackest black you could ever imagine. I have reached the statute of limitations on a secret of the space program: How do you... go to the bathroom? Then you hear 'bloop, bloop, bloop, blooooop. I never did find out what that was. Where's my huggy pillow?"
-Captain Ron Evans, US Navy, serial killing Vietnam veteran bomber pilot, Apollo 17, died of "heart attack" in 1990 (aged 57)
The shuttle does fly and land by remote control...
VIDEO DOWNLOAD: NASA Challenger Space Shuttle explosion
The cost of each launch has turned out to be 100 times greater than originally planned. Two of the first 113 flights ended in catastrophe. The
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"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.
Anyway, the shuttle went up OK. But that wasn't the issue. The question is - coming down.
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Over 300 astronots died in the Russian space program, according to Dark Moon at www.aulis.com. Russia had its own shuttle program, and is manning the space station which Discovery is docking with. I spoke with an insider who confessed the US Army murdered over 40 US soldiers in a single "medical experiement" for NASA Nazis' space physics research, testing space suits. The "best score" was 400 degrees F locking in an oven. Their military commander admitted, "I didn't think so many would volunteer." Now he works for CIA, as do many "NASA employees"...
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Shuttle crew faces 1-in-100 chance of dying
CNN
June 27, 2006
The seven crew members of the space shuttle Discovery arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday to begin training for a spaceflight next month in which each will have a 1-in-100 chance of dying.
Those are the official odds that NASA has long given.
Exactly what the real odds are is a question that looms larger than normal this time.
That is because two top officials at NASA took the unusual step of dissenting from the space agency's decision to go ahead with the launch without correcting the potentially catastrophic problem of foam falling from the external fuel tank. That was the problem that doomed the Columbia 3 1/2 years ago.
The agency's safety director and chief engineer wanted to wait and repair the problem.
Michael Stamatelatos, who as director of safety and assurance requirements at NASA is the agency's risk guru, said NASA's 1-in-100 odds for the loss a vehicle and its crew should be taken with a grain of salt, because NASA used to say the chances were 1 in 7,000 until Challenger proved that to be overly optimistic.
"Now we know that's not true," Stamatelatos said. "That was based on insufficient information."
He said there are too many uncertainties to say precisely what the odds might be this time.
The more NASA studies what goes on, the more the agency finds that the risks were really far higher than originally thought, because so much more could go wrong than engineers figured, said Paul Fischbeck, a Carnegie Mellon University engineering and decision sciences professor.
Fischbeck, a former military pilot, said he is disturbed by NASA's decision to go ahead and launch. He said the foam hit that caused a fatal hole in the Columbia's heat-protection layer in 2003 took the agency completely by surprise. Engineers thought they had repaired that problem before Discovery's return to flight last summer, only to find another foam problem.
"Both those things should be shaking their engineers to the core," said Fischbeck, who has consulted with NASA on the shuttle heat shield risk. "You're flying with stuff you know is not going to work right."
The uncertainty about the foam worried NASA safety chief Bryan O'Connor. He dissented from the launch decision but did not appeal, because NASA has drawn up plans to send the crew to the international space station to await rescue if the shuttle skin should be damaged.
O'Connor, a former shuttle commander, helped investigate the Challenger accident and was in his safety chief job less than a year when Columbia disintegrated as it soared toward its landing.
www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/06/27/shuttle.risk.ap/index.html
So what's the real odds, counting all the unreported deaths?
NASA TV has the docking on right now live.
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Funny how NASA still uses black and white TV, and stars are never visible day or night.
You can watch the shuttle and ISS with you nekked eyes tonight and the next couple of nights. This chart will tell you when to look:
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/
And don't ride on anything with a Capissen 38 engine, they fall right out of the sky.
-Kaywinnet Lee Frye
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NASAs on crack. That explains everything.
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Crack Found in Foam on Shuttle
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Inspectors found a 5-inch-long crack in the foam insulation covering the shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, and NASA managers were deciding Monday whether to call off the scheduled Fourth of July launch.
The inspectors found the crack, which was 8 inches deep, in the foam on a bracket near the top of the external fuel tank.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060703/D8IKI3N82.html
"We found an 8-inch deep crack in the Space Shuttle. Now giant pieces are falling off and hitting the launch pad. Quick, launch it before anyone notices!"
-NASA
Yeah, NASA really landed live men on The Moon, and returned them safely to Earth.
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Official NASA video marked "LIVE FROM THE SURFACE OF THE MOON". "That's one small step for Man, one giant leap for (crash)... Well, I guess you want to do it again?!" Then a team of Stanley Kubrick's film crew in London picks up the fallen studio lighting and helps Neil Armstrong climb back up the ladder of the LEM.
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/apollo11-outtake.wmv
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Last call for bets on a crash landing this morning.
17,000 MPH! MACH 25!
5,000 DEGREES!
NO ENGINE!
NO FRIGGIN LANDING GEAR!
EXPLOSIVE BOMB USED FOR FIRST TIME ON LANDING GEAR!
ROCKET FUEL LEAK COULD EXPLODE!
LOSS OF HYDRAULIC PRESSURE FOR ALL FLIGHT CONTROLS!
NO WAY TO REPAIR DAMAGED STROFOAM TILES!
OXYGEN RUNS OUT ON WEDNESDAY!
BATTERIES DIE ON WEDNESDAY!
NO LIFE JACKETS!
NO LIFEBOAT!
NASA RUN BY NAZI LUCIFERIAN FREEMASONS AT BOHEMIAN GROVE!
RAIN AND WIND AND THUNDER AND LIGHTNING OH NO!
Watch it dead or alive:
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
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FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS - THE CAPN HAS TURNED ON THE NO FEAR SIGN
It took 20 years before this picture could be taken, but at last the shuttle is serving one its most fundamental purposes -- ferrying cargo and crews to and from an orbiting space station.
John Shannon, NASA’s deputy shuttle program manager, said that in worst case scenario – in which fuel is leaking and not harmless nitrogen, something that is not yet certain – one of Discovery’s three auxiliary power units (APUs) may be leaking a total of about six drops an hour, or about 100,000 times below the fire hazard limit.
“We’re okay where we are right now,” Shannon said, adding that extra checks of the APU are planned to Sunday. “If it’s hydrazine, at the current leak rate we really don’t have any concerns with using it right now.”
Shuttle APUs provide the power required for hydraulic systems that move an orbiter’s elevons, vertical stabilizer flaps, landing gear and other systems required during landing.
To generate power, the units use hydrazine for fuel and gaseous nitrogen to generate pressure. Either one of those materials may be the source of the leak in APU 1. The leak’s presence is suggested by a minute yet steady drop in tank pressure, but the aft section of Discovery that houses the unit lacks the necessary sensors to know for sure.
“The question is what’s leaking,” said Shannon, who also chairs Discovery’s STS-121 Mission Management Team, during a briefing here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. “There is some anecdotal evidence, actual even better than anecdotal evidence, that it’s nitrogen and if it is than it’s no issue at all. In my view, it’s a coin flip.”
Based on that uncertainty, NASA managers and engineers are assuming the worst – a hydrazine leak – and have developed a test to determine whether drip is stable or could degrade further. If a Sunday checkout of the system, in which engineers plan to run the power unit briefly to see if its pressure drops more than the current rate, is unfavorable, NASA plans to run the APU until its fuel is used up and take it offline during reentry.
While a shuttle can land on one APU if necessary, all three are preferred for redundancy. APU 1, in particular, is the only unit powering Discovery’s landing gear. If it is taken offline, the shuttle will have to fire a set of pyrotechnic charges to deploy its main and nose landing gears, Shannon said.
Either way, there is no risk of a repeat fire such as that seen during NASA’s STS-9 shuttle flight in 1983, in which a large hydrazine leak sprayed the toxic fuel on a hot surface and ignited two APUs, Shannon said. One other leak early in the shuttle program – during approach and landing tests – actually seeped gallons of the stuff into the vehicle’s aft compartment, but did not ignite, he added.
Discovery’s STS-121 astronaut crew is slated to land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on July 17 at 9:14 a.m. EDT (1314 GMT). The spaceflight is NASA’s second shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia accident.
Problems with the station’s robotic arm delayed a late inspection of Discovery’s port wing by almost an hour Friday. Astronaut Lee Archambault, serving as spacecraft communicator, told Lindsey that flight controllers were willing to pull the port wing scan – which is part of two-day inspection to determine whether tiny mNOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Positive Energy for our fellow world citizens... Positive...
finger and toe crossing may help too.
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Far be it for to me to agree with PN's ranting, but the Shuttle really is a rickety piece of junk based on outdated and insufficient technologies, and way past it's prime.
The thing that rooked me about it from it's very inception is that it has NO PLACE in space exploration, being mainly designed to put stuff like satellites and whatnot in orbit - and is flat out INCAPABLE of prolonged exo-orbital missions.
The private sector has come up with some pretty nice alternatives, but again, they're just for putting more junk up there for the broadcast networks.
DS1 was the last innovative attempt at useful experimentation and exploration, and we ought to be looking back at technologies we didn't have the infrastructure, research or technology to back up at the time, and now might.
Electrogravitics (winterhaven-brown type)
Solar Sail (and the russians have been workin on one)
Ion Engines (which work unbelievably better than anticipated)
But too bad, this goes across certain RELIGIOUS beliefs that would be negatively impacted if it were found that we're not alone.
The best evidence that there's other intelligent life in the universe, is how far it stays away from US.
-Frem
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I think I'd turn those dang leaking APUs off ASAP! And bail out on the runway NOW. Explosions are so pesky.
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Notice how far away the ground crew is staying away from that smoking bomb... You can hear the dang thing like some sort of scifi terror FX. Don't they have one of those inflatable slide thingys? Apparently they're afraid to turn the APUs off... They left the speed brakes open, in case it sparked and ignited the fuel leak...
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