Please save this message for reference. Discuss the Outer Solar System, from the Moons of Jupiter to the outer reaches of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt. It is...
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Feb 1, 2003 10:05 am
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I usually don't open this board up to non-outer solar system discussion (the only other time I can remember was right after September 11) but in light of this...
... To: marssocietynewsletter@yahoogroups.com Subject: [marssocietynewsletter] The Mars Society Mourns the Columbia Crew The Mars Society Mourns the Columbia...
I would like to extend my deepest condolences to all the families, frends, and co-workers who lost 7 of their finest this morning. Dennis M. Falk Eureka, CA...
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0302/01/bn.08.html For my record and maybe yours: CNN BREAKING NEWS NASA Briefing, Part I Aired February 1, 2003 - 15:31 ET ...
Robert Mirelson/Sarah Keegan Headquarters, Washington February 2, 2003 (Phone: 202/358-1600) RELEASE: 03-035 FY 2004 BUDGET PRESS BRIEFING POSTPONED As a...
Ron Baalke
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Feb 2, 2003 6:29 pm
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Sequence of events from today's news conference: 7:53 AM -- Temperature inside left wheel well starts to rise (20 deg over the next 5 minutes)....
From tonight's NY Times ( http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/national/03NASA.html ): NASA Dismissed Advisers Who Warned About Safety By WILLIAM J. BROAD and...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/opinion/03MON1.html ...Beyond the technical inquiry, it will be imperative to look more broadly at the space agency's...
As we know every shuttle mission to the ISS re-boosts the space station's height. As I understand the Progress vehicles can't re-boost the ISS much. We lost...
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/03/sprj.colu.shuttle/index.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/867336.asp?0si The foam fragment is now officially the prime...
Abstracts for the 34th Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in March are now online: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2003/ . Below is a listing of some...
OK, here's the dope. NASA will delay the competitive selection of the second New Frontiers mission and fly the Pluto "New Horizons" probe first -- which...
I've finished my initial scan of the documents, and will only add the following: (1) The 2009 Mars Telecom Orbiter will only use laser communications as an ...
...on why the Station and the Shuttle should both be immediately cancelled: http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030210/sceasterbrook.html Incidentally,...
(Thought I was over that, didn't you?...) That URL is for the detailed NASA budget documents -- but the JIMO animation is at http://www.nasa.gov/about/budget ....
(1) Would it be possible to coat the entire Shuttle body with a thin layer of some lightweight shock-absorbent foam that would burn away quickly and safely...
... The surface area is large. A single continuous surface probably cannot do. Like a long bridge, roadway, you need "gaps" to allow for expansion and ...
... peter writes: My first reaction was that the shuttle was struck by space junk during reentry and not from insulation from the fuel tank. I admit that I...
This IS interesting stuff. Anybody know anything about this story? ******* CATASTROPHE IN THE SKY NASA probes 'electric zap' mystery photo Former astronaut...
... Sounds like an electrical discharge up the ionisation trail to the ionisphere, but these sprites are usually seen only over intense thunderstorms. dmh...
Here's another fact that's unusual. Columbia was studying these Sprites on its mission. If this isn't a CCD camera artifact, then I think we have something. I...
... How do we know he was using a CCD camera. The report says a Nikon. It may well be a film camera. Shame the guy hasn't released his name, or his pictures!...