Will NASA react to "West Wing" ?

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote:
Because in case you hadn't noticed, West Wing is a Drama, not a documentary.

Nevertheless, it is bad image for NASA to have such programmes provide
wrong portrayals of what the station is about. Someone who knows nothing
about the station wouldn't realise that what this programm said was not
realistic and may believe that the station really has no way to save
people's lives.

This gives a bad image for NASA , one where people think that NASA is
reckless with lives and doesn't provide redundancy to save crew lives.

PR is very important. And that episode of West Wing (finctional or not)
provided bad PR for NASA.

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote:
Actually, I believe this is standard protocol. Part of the problem is the
inside is covered with lots of equipment, which can make finding it tough.
I believe they did an EVA on Mir to find the source of the leak after the
Soyuz collision.

Early on after Destiny was attached, didn't NASA have some project to
have a device pinpoint leaks within the station 1- by checking pressure
differences, and then using sound to pinpoint the area within a module ?

In the case of Mir, they had a fully depressurized module, so EVA was
required. They had no arm with cameras to inspect the damage.

On the station, at least within the reach of the arm (why don't they
have a grapple point on the russian segment , at least on Zarya which is
techically a US segment ?) theycan inspect the station's outer skin with
the arm without requiring EVA. And all fixes would have to be done from
the inside anyways.

On 2005-04-04, John Doe wrote:
"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote:
It should be noted OV-101 Enterprise, OV-102 Columbia, OV-99
Challenger, OV-103 Discovery, OV-104 Atlantis, and OV-105 Endeavour all
of them are military orbiters.

Oh? Really, which service?

Wasn't Atlantis originally dedicated to military service and under
control of the military service ? (Was it transfered to NASA after
Challenger , or much later on ?)

It was intended that one orbiter would be (semi) permanently based at
Vandenberg - this was in the early to mid 1980s. This would still be a
NASA shuttle, but it would be usually tasked with flying DoD missions -
much like Atlantis was, for several years, tasked solely with flights to
Mir. (AIUI, most flights out of Vandenberg were to be defence-related)

It was presumably thought that it was logistically simpler to have
only one orbiter tasked with flying from Vandenberg; I don't know how
much specialised hardware or expertise is unique to each orbiter, but I
assume there was some; how well this plan would have worked in practice
is debatable, of course, what with schedule pressures and maintenance
periods and so on.

(If the DoD would be likely to have specialised modifications to the
orbiters for their missions, of course, then it would certainly be
simpler to have one dedicated to the duty)

After poking through Jenkins for a bit I find:

"Discovery was to be 'dedicated' to Vandenberg missions, although any
Orbiter could be used from any launch site".

--
-Andrew Gray

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
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Well... They already get plenty things wrong in "Isaac and Ishmael", so
I guess that if they already can get away with that, they too can get
away with this, provided that their boss let them get away.



As for the civilian shuttle (Orbiter) being grounded.

Which one?

It should be noted OV-101 Enterprise, OV-102 Columbia, OV-99
Challenger, OV-103 Discovery, OV-104 Atlantis, and OV-105 Endeavour all
of them are military orbiters.


Oh? Really, which service?


OV-101 Enterprise I think was assigned to the Cadets...
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