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2008-02-21 Thread Larry Lyons
>I think the current plan is to finish the ISS, and then go back to the Moon, >as a launch base for Mars missions > Frankly they should skip over the moon and Mars entirely and go for the asteroid belt. Much richer in potential resources and far cheaper to exploit. At least there would be no gra

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2008-02-21 Thread G Money
sions > > -- > Scott Stewart > ColdFusion Developer > > SSTWebworks > 4405 Oakshyre Way > Raleigh, NC. 27616 > (919) 874-6229 (home) > (703) 220-2835 (cell) > > -Original Message- > From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 200

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2008-02-20 Thread Scott Stewart
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:17 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: And back it comes Once the space shuttle is retired they will return to old style ROCKETS. They will use capsules and a smaller delta 2 i think it was rocket for capsule with human astronauts. They are still debating

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2008-02-20 Thread Erika L. Walker
Darnit, someone beat me to it On 2/20/08, Crow T. Robot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A combination of Virgin Galactic Parcel Service & Virgin Galactic > Airlines. > > On Feb 20, 2008 10:48 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FedEx? > > ~~

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2008-02-20 Thread Bill Wheatley
Once the space shuttle is retired they will return to old style ROCKETS. They will use capsules and a smaller delta 2 i think it was rocket for capsule with human astronauts. They are still debating if the capsules will land in the ocean or land. Then they will use larger rockets for deploying hea

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2008-02-20 Thread William Bowen
> New spaceships??? Sweet. but 2014? but what about the ones they keep in the hangers for an emergency? Like if an asteroid was coming and they needed to send some hastily trained oil-rig workers up there to split it in half. I mean, *that* spaceship is already available, right? right? !_! --

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2008-02-20 Thread G Money
New spaceships??? Sweet. On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Buzz Aldrin this morning on Fox, we will have a temporary > hiatus in operations until new space ships are finished. I believe he > said we should be resuming in 2014. > > Bruce > > G

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2008-02-20 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:39 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: And back it comes > > Question: How are people and supplies going to get too and from the ISS > when > the shuttl

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2008-02-20 Thread Billy Cox
Nah... The ISS can still be supplied by Soyuz rockets. I assume that they can also carry people. -Original Message- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:48 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: And back it comes FedEx? (The Shuttle won&#

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2008-02-20 Thread Bruce Sorge
According to Buzz Aldrin this morning on Fox, we will have a temporary hiatus in operations until new space ships are finished. I believe he said we should be resuming in 2014. Bruce G Money wrote: > Question: How are people and supplies going to get too and from the ISS when > the shuttle syst

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2008-02-20 Thread Crow T. Robot
A combination of Virgin Galactic Parcel Service & Virgin Galactic Airlines. On Feb 20, 2008 10:48 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FedEx? > > (The Shuttle won't be retired, is my real guess) > > On Feb 20, 2008 11:38 AM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Question: How are peopl

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2008-02-20 Thread Jerry Johnson
FedEx? (The Shuttle won't be retired, is my real guess) On Feb 20, 2008 11:38 AM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: How are people and supplies going to get too and from the ISS when > the shuttle system is discontinued in 2010? ~~

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2008-02-20 Thread G Money
Question: How are people and supplies going to get too and from the ISS when the shuttle system is discontinued in 2010? On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the Japanese lab is going up later this spring. > > This lab was European in nature, and wa

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2008-02-20 Thread Jerry Johnson
I think the Japanese lab is going up later this spring. This lab was European in nature, and was delayed for years due to contractor issues (they split the work up into multiple contracts, to keep everyone happy). Fortunately for them, the delays did not affect the launch date much, as the repeat

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2008-02-20 Thread G Money
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the ISS becoming more and more the "NASA doing everything SS" how can > you not feel just a little national pride? Really I have been getting the exact opposite feeling lately, actually. Didn't they just attach a la

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2008-02-20 Thread Jim Davis
> On 2/20/08, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't know about others, but watching things like this make me very > > proud of my country. All space exploration brings up that "maybe humanity has a shot" emotion in me... but as much as I tend to view it all as "Earthlings in space

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2008-02-20 Thread Erika L. Walker
That actually what I was thinking ... was afraid to admit it for some reason On 2/20/08, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know about others, but watching things like this make me very > proud of my country. > >

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2008-02-20 Thread Bill Wheatley
Friend and I are going up again to watch the next launch on which will be a 231AM launch. We're not going to let KSC screw us this time though like they did for Atlantis's launch. On 2/20/08, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That was a very neat landing. I really enjoyed the multiple ca

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2008-02-20 Thread Bruce Sorge
That was a very neat landing. I really enjoyed the multiple camera angles and the HUD view while landing. I don't know about others, but watching things like this make me very proud of my country. Bruce Erika L. Walker wrote: > And she has landed. Very neat. Back from the space labs. >

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2008-02-20 Thread Tony
thank ye. i havent seen that in a LONG TIME. ill still to this day never forget, and i can ALMOST remember what i had on... that winter day, back in what '84 when the shuttle blew up :( wild wild shit On 2/20/08, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shuttle due to land at 9:07 am for thos

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2008-02-20 Thread Erika L. Walker
And she has landed. Very neat. Back from the space labs. On 2/20/08, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shuttle due to land at 9:07 am for those who are interested. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most impo