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Old June 29th 06, 01:32 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope
this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident
free.

Shuttle launch countdown begins

The US space agency has begun a three-day countdown to the launch of
its next space shuttle mission.

At 2200 BST (1700 EDT) on Wednesday, launch team members at Kennedy
Space Center in Florida set the clock running ahead of Saturday's
planned lift-off.

The shuttle Discovery is set to visit the International Space Station
on a 12-day mission to deliver supplies and equipment and test safety
improvements.

But Nasa says there is a strong chance of weather delaying the launch.

Thunderstorms and anvil clouds bring the threat of lightning strikes,
the agency said, estimating the chance of postponement at about 60%.

'Excellent shape'

During a countdown status briefing at Kennedy, NASA test director Jeff
Spaulding announced: "Discovery is in excellent shape, and we're
tracking no issues in our preparation at this point.

"Our teams have been working tirelessly during this last year to help
make this flight and all shuttle flights as safe as possible for the
crews."

In the run-up to launch, some final "tireless work" for the five-man,
two-woman crew of Discovery will involve training for the descent
phase, Florida Today newspaper reports.

Mission commander Steve Lindsey and pilot Mark Kelly will practice
landing in a Gulfstream aircraft modified to mimic the shuttle's steep
trajectory during final approach.


Fellow astronauts Mike Fossum, Stephanie Wilson and Piers Sellers will
be at the pad, training to take pictures of the shuttle's re-designed
external fuel tank once it is jettisoned from the orbiter nine minutes
into flight.

It is only the second shuttle launch since Columbia broke up as it
re-entered the Earth's atmosphere in 2003.

A suitcase-sized foam chunk broke away from the external tank on
lift-off and punched a hole in Columbia's wing.

This allowed super-heated gases into the wing during descent towards
Earth on 1 February 2003, tearing the craft apart.

Foam was also shed during the first post-Columbia launch in July 2005.
This forced Nasa managers to ground the fleet while further
modifications were made to the tank.

Completion aim

At a Flight Readiness Review on 17 June, Nasa managers were split on
whether the problem was fixed.

The agency's chief engineer Christopher Scolese and its top safety
officer Bryan O'Connor each cast a negative vote for Discovery's
lift-off on 1 July. Their concerns centred on the risk of losing the
orbiter, but not its astronaut crew.

The option of using the International Space Station (ISS) as a lifeboat
if the shuttle was damaged provides this mission with additional
security, Scolese has said.

On this mission, a new crew member, the European Space Agency astronaut
Thomas Reiter, will be dropped off at the station for a six-month-long
stay.

If the flight is successful, Nasa plans another 16 missions to to
finish construction of the half-built ISS, and - potentially - one last
servicing call to the Hubble Space Telescope before the shuttle fleet
is retired in 2010.

Nasa's launch team is conducting the countdown from the newly renovated
Firing Room Four of Kennedy's Launch Control Center.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5126156.stm

America's SHUTTLE & The International Space Station
The American Space Shuttles, which face a firm 2010 retirement date,
are the only vehicles that can finish assembly of the half-built
International Space Station (ISS)

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Warhol wrote:
Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope
this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident
free.

Shuttle launch countdown begins



Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes.

Superglue holding on the loose tiles.

Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place.

Yup!

Call in Shorty Powers for the count down!

Double-A

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Old June 29th 06, 05:04 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Double-A wrote:
Warhol wrote:
Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope
this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident
free.

Shuttle launch countdown begins



Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes.

Superglue holding on the loose tiles.

Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place.

Yup!

Call in Shorty Powers for the count down!

Double-A



Good. Then how do you keep it manned until the new US orbital
fairycraft is up
and operational?

And then theres the small matter, of food, water, air, etc
etc????????????

Looks like NASA will be giving Russian languge lessons, for at least 10
more
years.

Of course, the American Government will extend the new vehicles
development curve
to at least 10 years, because of other budgetary demands, like 2.5
billion usd
per month for Iraq alone.

Leaving NASA no choice but to look to Russia, or maybe even China, to
get astronauts back and forth to ISS.

Is this due simple lack of leadership???

Lets do hope all goes well Saturday. If there is another shuttle lost
in flight, its over.

Are NASA High Priest are too stupid to implement niavigation and
autopilot sustem to permit for the US S Shuttle to be used in
autonomous mode the way Buran did.

Then the US S Shuttle could still be used to deliver stuff with less
risk for humans (expect during the docking procedures with the ISS, the
astronuts probably will screw as usual)

But than the US S Shuttle will be outed from the NASA manned flight
pork barel which eats 4 billion from the NASA budget which is already
too slim curtessy, since I heard somewhere US Goverment went broke in
Iraq...

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nightbat wrote

Double-A wrote:

Warhol wrote:

Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope
this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident
free.

Shuttle launch countdown begins





Commander Double-A
Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes.

Superglue holding on the loose tiles.

Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place.

Yup!

Call in Shorty Powers for the count down!

Double-A


nightbat

Yes Commander, and load all the coffee boys in Discovery
shuttle bay for their greatest adventure, ok give them oxygen packs and
rubber duckies for the ride and tell them we'll all miss them not.

ponder on,
the nightbat




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Double-A and nightbat. The great Hubble telescope just went blind Now
we can't let those astronauts on the ISS go hungry. This begs the
question What if we never built the ISS,and retired the shuttles 10
years ago? We could have used this saving of money and lives to have
built a more advanced Hubble,and put it in orbit with a large dependable
rocket. The Hubble has shown us the universe. The Mafia shuttles going
around the Earth 300 miles up have shown us nothing but how short
sighted politicians can get when they are counting all those billions
and billions stolen from the shuttle program. The Mafia keeps the
shuttles going because it brings in the bucks. Evolving the shuttles to
be safer over the last 40 years costs money. NASA motto is "Life is
cheap but a buck is still a buck" Bert

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nightbat wrote

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:

Double-A and nightbat. The great Hubble telescope just went blind Now
we can't let those astronauts on the ISS go hungry. This begs the
question What if we never built the ISS,and retired the shuttles 10
years ago? We could have used this saving of money and lives to have
built a more advanced Hubble,and put it in orbit with a large dependable
rocket. The Hubble has shown us the universe. The Mafia shuttles going
around the Earth 300 miles up have shown us nothing but how short
sighted politicians can get when they are counting all those billions
and billions stolen from the shuttle program. The Mafia keeps the
shuttles going because it brings in the bucks. Evolving the shuttles to
be safer over the last 40 years costs money. NASA motto is "Life is
cheap but a buck is still a buck" Bert


nightbat

The profound Earth Science Team Officers for years Team warned
like the retired Nasa space engineers of the flaws in the shuttles glue
and tile configuration and advocated upgraded models with escape designs
like Dr. Von Braun's for the manned space program vehicles. The present
shuttles could Officer Bert be computer launched including safer
powerful rocket launched nose cone manned vehicles to tie up in space
mission later. Once the routine unmanned shuttle was placed in space the
astronauts could occupy and operate the shuttles with relative safety
until they were Earth computer returned additionally with separate
astronaut mission specialists personnel rocket B bottom compact designs
or emergency parachute capsule return options.

ponder on,
the nightbat
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nightbat All you posted is good engineering sense. Reality is the
shuttle engineers were picked by the Ca, Mafia. to build the Rube
Goldberg shuttles. The shuttles are money making machines,and for that
they did their job very well.NASA's Mafia are above all the laws of the
land. Best to remember 21 of their best engineers said the Columbia was
unsafe to fly. It exploded. They lost their jobs in telling the
citizens of NASA corruption. Most of these engineers are dead by
now,but I will post for them while I'[m alive. They are yelling in
their graves. "Don't fly the Discovery" it is not safe to fly. Bert

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Double-A wrote:

Warhol wrote:
Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope
this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident
free.

Shuttle launch countdown begins



Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes.

Superglue holding on the loose tiles.

Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place.

Yup!

Call in Shorty Powers for the count down!

Double-A


Fortunately NASA doesn't have to pay any attention to the clueless
usenet yappings of a bunch of Star Trek pajama-clad saucerheads.

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*call* quantum theory a "scientific" one? How can it possibly
be referred to as a "fundamental branch of physics"?"
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nightbat wrote:

nightbat wrote

Double-A wrote:

Warhol wrote:

Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope
this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident
free.

Shuttle launch countdown begins





Commander Double-A
Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes.

Superglue holding on the loose tiles.

Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place.

Yup!

Call in Shorty Powers for the count down!

Double-A


nightbat

Yes Commander, and load all the coffee boys in Discovery
shuttle bay for their greatest adventure, ok give them oxygen packs and
rubber duckies for the ride and tell them we'll all miss them not.


GO FROOTBAT GO!!

ponder on,
the nightbat





--
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Official Overseer of Kooks and Saucerheads in alt.astronomy
Co-Winner, alt.(f)lame Worst Flame War, December 2005
Official "Usenet psychopath and born-again LLPOF minion",
as designated by Brad Guth

"And without accurate measuring techniques, how can they even
*call* quantum theory a "scientific" one? How can it possibly
be referred to as a "fundamental branch of physics"?"
-- Painsnuh the Lamer

"Well, orientals moved to the U.S. and did amazingly well on
their own, and the races are related (brown)."
-- "Honest" John pontificates on racial purity

"Significant new ideas have rarely come from the ranks of
the establishment."
-- Double-A on technology development
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Old July 3rd 06, 11:22 AM posted to alt.astronomy,alt.usenet.kooks
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nightbat wrote

Art Deco wrote:

Double-A wrote:


Warhol wrote:

Meanwhile US S Shuttle Discovery is on the launching pad. Let's hope
this and all the next flights till the concotion retires, be accident
free.

Shuttle launch countdown begins



Chewing gum stuffed in all the cracked pipes.

Superglue holding on the loose tiles.

Bailing wire holding all that foam insulation in place.

Yup!

Call in Shorty Powers for the count down!

Double-A


Bart Devo

Fortunately NASA doesn't have to pay any attention to the clueless
usenet yappings of a bunch of Star Trek pajama-clad saucerheads.


nightbat

Wrong premise coffee boy Devo because profound net astronomy
Earth Science Team Officers took the heat about the shuttles long before
we lost those brave crew members and Nasa finally decided to finally
refurbish the worn out tiles and falling foam issues.

get us some more fresh coffee,
the nightbat
 




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