FWIW Sean O'Keefe agrees with the viability of a
rescue attempt.
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/28/sprj.colu.okeefe.ap/
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On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 02:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(*) I almost said "dyed in the wool". That would be a bd
description, for -- the merit of the argument aside -- it takes guts
to go up
against the establishment.
True enough - they aren't sheepish about making their views kno
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:05:39 -0800 (PST), Michael Wallis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keep in mind that he resolution seen in the photos released from AMOS
>may not be as detailed as possible. Either way, you're right. It would
>have been rough. There is the possibility that Atlantis could have
>b
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:57:53 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The trouble is, if they
>*did* see the damage, the country would have been subject to a very
>painful 'death watch' as they stayed in orbit.
Not necessarily - the same logic they used to decide not to ask for
pictures might have made the
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Adrian is talking about fervent, vocal,
> "no-nukes-in-space" protesters,
> and they act on the basis of emotion: a deep-seated
> (*) fear of nuclear-
> energy technology in all its forms. I don't want to
> get into a discussion of
> this here, so let me just sa
On 24 Feb 2003, at 12:45, David Weinshenker wrote:
> Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> > and even once it's out there, some people still object to
> > "nukes in space".
>
> Now that's just plain silly... space propulsion is one of the
> few applications for nuclear power that _isn't_ sinfully wasteful
> o
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> p.s. Can a Shuttle cary eight people?
Yes. There have been two or three flights with eight-man crews, in fact.
Henry Spencer
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One of the most frequent errors I encountered in space operations was the
knee-jerk reaction that something wasn't practical or couldn't be done
because the equipment "wasn't designed for that." The people making those
kinds of objections cost many valuable hours spent in meetings with high
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ...But it's probably enough to say that, over a ten-day period at
> the beginning of the campaign, the rockets were arriving at a rate of
> "rather more that two a day". Each battery had three V-2s, and logically
> they would be set up and fired in
