You are grounding the shuttle for what may be forever. Now lets get this straight, you have a vehicle called a Shuttle that has a big external tank, are you...

snidely wrote: Jim Oberg wrote: Alan tells it all: During Tuesday morning's tests, the system was set artificially to give an "empty" or "dry"...

Unbelievable. These clowns were falling all over themselves at the post launch press conference to tell the world what a great job they did, and didn't even...

The high point of this mission so far, to me, has been the imaging. From the ET camera ascent video to that amazing hi-res photo nose-on of the orbiter to the...

"NASA is expected to make a decision Sunday on whether to clear the spacecraft to return to Earth." My question is what would be the options if they did not...

The Space Shuttle has never come close to living up to it's original stated purpose (cheap, safe, reusable space transport vehicle). Even the current "savior"...

Jeez Honey Beez! I guess Lockheed/Martin (and Haliburton) have worked their spreadsheets to prove that their bottom lines would be improved by infinite...

Is that the nose of the shuttle, pointing up-left, with the tail pointing down-left-away?

Is there over 6 X 10^6 thrust transferred to the shuttle from the ET struts. Also, is the the same amount of energy exerted against the two SRB...

This is the same quandry as the Penguin. Let's re-engineer the External Tank to be Ti/carbon-composite/honeycomb. And maybe put some large ceramic tiles...

Maybe we just saw the last flight --

If the foam is sprayed on to the tank during assembly, then maybe a sub-surface Kevlar netting that is integrated into the application of the foam would help. ...

Couldn't you design a metal skin to protect the tiles that would evaporate during ascent and reduce the stress on the tiles? You know certain metals evaporate...

I read that the much denser LOX is on the top of the ET, with the LH below it. This seems counter-intuitive. I would think from a structural point of view,...

Don't get me wrong, I grew up as a fan of space exploration and even watched the first moon launch from about 50mi away in Florida as an infant. I hate what...

Any reason why the foam cannot be *inside* the fuel tank? -- Gareth Slee

What species of bird was struck at lift-off? Most of what I saw at the Cape was rather large vultures or gulls? Another question that I have concerns the...

Anyone know the shuttle's lift to drag ratio? -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Michael J. Strickland Quality Services ...

With apparently some minor damage to some tiles, will NASA keep its shuttle repair kit confined to the test tiles in the cargo bay, or would they go for the...

Could someone in the know please provide an overview of how the Space Shuttle catches up with the Space Station. Unless I'm wrong two objects orbiting at the...