Space Shuttle

Started by Raze · 10 posts · 1,569 views

  1. #1
    I know it doesn't have anything to do with games or music, but I thought it was cool.

    The shuttle will return to space in just 2 WEEKS! July 13 space shuttle Discovery is planned to launch.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8420409/
  2. #2
    July 13


    .....huh it's a wednesday, NASA's luck with the shuttle you would think the 13th would be a friday.
  3. #3
    Why??!! Maybe it's just me, but you'd think they would hvae scrapped it after the Columbia debolce and built a better way. The shuttle, as it stands is just an antiquated peice of machinery that costs more and more to send up each time we do it.

    IMO, it's as though NASA has their finger plugging their ears going, "Laa-la-la-la-lalala...I can't hear you...lalala..."
  4. #4
    Well I think after this one tey are going to phase this style of shuttle out for a new generation of shuttle smaller and looking more like the stealth bomber.
  5. #5
    We can only hope, Hymen.
  6. #6
    The problem is it takes a while to develop something so complicated. What really excites me is all the private enterprise getting into the space travel business. If we truly want to get somewhere, it has to be driven by good old capitalism.
  7. #7
    FYI- A good friend of my father's who was an engineer who did work on the engines for the F-22 told me the computers on the shuttle are very similar to the Commodore 64. If they upgrade the shuttle, they have to upgrade the systems in the control centers in Fla and Houston and it has been deemed too expensive. he also said the next generation of our fighter planes after the F22( in the next 20 years) are being designed as pilotless.
  8. #8
    More cool space stuff. I stayed up past 1am cst to watch the deep impact mission live where they took a probe and slammed it into a comet and had another probe (that released the other) take pictures of it. Pretty cool to catch the pictures live with nasa. The impact was on target and happened within 1 second of the estimated impact. The debris was much larger than expected. Pretty cool stuff.

    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpa...tml?skipIntro=1
  9. #9
    The guy I rented from in Maine was a BIG STS junkie, he gave me the Operations and Integrations Schedule for STS-4 "Final Space Transportation System research and development flight."
    Lift off June 24 1982 and landed July 4th 1982.

    It's the paper copy of the launch schedule that starts 30 days BEFORE the launch up to achieved orbit.

    It's about 100 double sided pages of "At 13:03:50 DO this and turn that and check this" type document.

    It's signed by the NASA launch commander B.H. Childers
    Thomas K. Mattingly II (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut, (Shhuttle Commander)
    Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr. NASA Astronaut (Pilot)

    STS-4 was the first flying of the Columbia, that was lost during STS-107 in 2003 from the foam breaking off on lift off.
  10. #10
    That's very cool.

    I have a large model of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It's in the box, unassembled and complete. I've had it 20+ years now. I've debated selling it, but it's hard to put a price on something that holds sentimental value.