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Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle (NASA SP-4221) by T.A. Heppenheimer is an excellent historical account of the political decision to build the Shuttle. Space Shuttle News Reference Manual: this is a good resource for basic technical data. Shuttle Operational Data Book : commonly called the "green book," this is a good reference work containing technical data that is updated by the Johnson Space Center. history.nasa.gov /shuttlehistory.html

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Second shuttle fuel tank arrives at the Cape A long mission simulation is underway to rehearse the launch of space shuttle Discovery, the uncovering of impact damage and the decision-making process of the flight controllers and management team. The STS-114 return-to-flight space shuttle astronauts inspect Discovery's thermal tiles and wing leading edge panels during the Crew Equipment Interface Test activities at Kennedy Space Center. In response to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's recommendation, the new tank incorporates several safety improvements, including an improved bipod fitting that connects the tank to the orbiter. www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0503/15sts121tank   (592 words)

SPACE.com -- NASA Delays First Post-Columbia Launch Wayne Hale, NASA’s deputy shuttle program manger, said that all of Discovery’s lighting restrictions will be aided by a new plan to reboost the space station in its orbit. 05:47 pm ET NASA has pushed back the date for its first space shuttle launch since the Columbia tragedy, delaying the flight one week to allow more time to complete much-needed paperwork and analyses, the space agency said Wednesday. NASA's New Chief to Scrutinize Shuttle Launch Decision www.space.com /missionlaunches/050420_sts114_delay.html   (679 words)

wcbstv.com - CBS2 Classics: Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy Following the tragedy, NASA grounded the shuttle fleet until Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery returned to space for a five-day mission. Twenty years ago, space shuttle Challenger blew apart into jets of fire and plumes of smoke, a terrifying sight witnessed by the families of the seven astronauts and onlookers who came to watch the historic launch of the first teacher in space. The Challenger disaster came in an era of tighter budgets, smaller work forces and a constant need for the space agency to justify the shuttle program that followed the heyday of the Apollo moon shots. wcbstv.com /topstories/local_story_025211237.html   (840 words)

NASA Budget Cuts Plan to Service Hubble, Sources Say (washingtonpost.com) NASA is scrapping plans to service the Hubble Space Telescope, either with the space shuttle or with a robot repairman, a decision likely to set up a fresh confrontation with Congress over the fate of the orbiting observatory. The decision to abandon Hubble servicing seems certain to rekindle the uproar that accompanied O'Keefe's original announcement a year ago, following the 2003 Columbia tragedy, to cancel a space shuttle trip to service Hubble. Sources said that the White House, in consultation with NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, had decided to eliminate the Hubble funding from the 2006 federal budget because the cost of servicing is expected to exceed $1 billion. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A27653-2005Jan21.html   (438 words)

Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle (NASA SP-4221) by T.A. Heppenheimer is an excellent historical account of the political decision to build the Shuttle. Shuttle Operational Data Book : commonly called the "green book," this is a good reference work containing technical data that is updated by the Johnson Space Center. NASA Shuttle Launches by Vehicle : Information on each orbiter. www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/shuttlehistory.html   (438 words)

Deorbit the Space Shuttle: Stem Cell Rescue Novel Publication Date is Revised Due to Upcoming US Supreme Court Medical Marijuana Decision, and NASA Hubble Telescope Decision Space shuttle Atlantis is stranded when “the Achilles heel of the space shuttle - a single point of failure - has been damaged.” Mavis verified the shuttle’s Achilles heel during discussions with a NASA space shuttle commander. The novel highlights the Achilles heel of the NASA space shuttle fleet. NASA recently decided to not save the Hubble telescope, and the space administration recently set a launch date for the space shuttles in May and July. www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/2/emw211328.htm   (438 words)

Wired News: Hubble Space Telescope: 1990-2007 Bill Readdy, head of space flight at NASA, defended the agency's decision to cancel the mission in a news conference on Monday, saying that it would be too difficult for NASA to prepare a second, backup shuttle on the ground in case of an emergency during the Hubble mission. The announcement came after a month-long battle by supporters who tried to revive the space agency's plans to engage in one last shuttle mission to repair the aging telescope. Conceived in 1962 and completed in 1985, Hubble did not see the light of distant stars until 1990, due to delays caused by another shuttle tragedy, the post-launch explosion of www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,62242,00.html   (803 words)

Space Politics: Authorization contretemps The space station is a political construct, so delaying recertification to let NASA complete it is a politicial decision. The real issue is that the United States has a tremendous financial, emotional, and political investment in the space shuttle as a tool and a symbol, and in the astronauts as public heroes. As I said, he and Griffin between them have turned it upside-down: CAIB chose 2010 to let NASA finish the space station, while Bush and Griffin are now changing the space station to meet the 2010 deadline. www.spacepolitics.com /archives/000583.html   (803 words)

Crouch With delays in International Space Station construction leaving ample room in the shuttle schedule, NASA made the unique decision to leave the equipment installed in Columbia and refly this mission with the same crew later in 1997 as STS-94. As the Chief Scientist of the NASA Microgravity Space and Applications Division since 1985 he has served as the manager for a research program that supports materials science, fluid physics, low temperature microgravity physics, combustion science, and biotechnology. In addition, he helped organize and has served as co-chairman for Microgravity Science Working Groups between NASA and the European Space Agency, France, Germany, Japan and Russia. www.astronautix.com /astros/crouch.htm   (803 words)

NASA - From Simulation to Space, Raffaello Prepares for Launch In this simulation, the team faced the challenge of deciding whether condensation would build inside Raffaello if its shell heaters could not be used when the module was moved from the Station back to the Shuttle. Although the simulation ended before a final decision was made, the Marshall team completed analysis that showed how quickly condensation would begin to form and how quickly freezing would occur without the use of the heaters. The heaters, mounted on the exterior walls of the module, are routinely used to match the temperatures of the Shuttle and the Station. www.nasa.gov /vision/space/workinginspace/mplm_module.html   (704 words)

Shuttle NASA staff and contractors were under incredible pressure to justify this decision by increasing the shuttle launch rate, lowering the turn-around time, and thereby reducing the cost per launch. When the shuttle Challenger exploded and the entire US space lift program was shut down for almost a year, the fallacy of this situation was exposed. To finance the Shuttle in the austere 1970’s, already-built Apollo hardware that would have supported a second Skylab mission was sent to museums and American manned space flight went into a long hiatus. www.astronautix.com /lvfam/shuttle.htm   (704 words)

ESA WANTS 3-YEAR STUDY TO REPLACE HERMES The new ESA effort, following a September decision by European governments to abandon Hermes, appears to be a European version of NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin's call for space missions that are smaller, faster and less expensive to design and build than their predecessors. Astro-Spas is scheduled for launch in February aboard the shuttle on a week-long astronomy mission. Most of the work has nothing to do with a space plane. dev.space.com /spacenews/archive92/sn1992.fff373.html   (1008 words)

Christa They knew space flight was risky; but NASA was famous for its "fail safe" flight standards. In 1984 when the decision was made to launch a Teacher-in-Space, the Reagan-Bush re-election campaign was already underway. "When the shuttle lifts off," President Reagan said as he announced the Teacher-In-Space project, "all of America will be reminded of the crucial role that teachers and education play in the life of our nation. www.newfoundations.com /Clabaugh/CuttingEdge/ChristaMcAulif.html   (1275 words)

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Why Hubble is being dropped It is said that the decision was made solely by Nasa's chief, Sean O'Keefe, and that it was not related to President George Bush's new space plan for a return to the Moon and missions to Mars. Following the loss of the space shuttle Columbia in February last year, all shuttle fights will now be to the International Space Station (ISS). In normal circumstances it requires three for normal operations (though some science can be done with two). news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3406079.stm   (688 words)

Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2003054837 The space shuttle was meant to herald the next phase of humankind's venture into space and restore NASA to its place of glory. With the cash-strapped Russians committed as key partners in the NASA-led International Space Station, the official statement from the Russian government was that now was the time to retire Mir with grace and dignity. We asked one another what had become of the Space Age-that epic turning point in history whose ultimate legacy would not be one of petty nationalist squabbles but one of common adventure and discovery as we reached out to the stars toward new adventures and horizons. www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random045/2003054837.html   (688 words)

Pravda.RU US Congressman Calls for Closer Co-operation with Russia in Space Programme A decision on how the crew, which is currently operating the International Space Station, ISS, will be replaced will be adopted in the next few days, NASA space agency chief Sean O'Keefe said Thursday as visiting the Stennis Space Centre in Mississippi. The work of the International Space Station (ISS) will be continued, representative of the NASA leading staff Bob Cabana, responsible for the actions of the crew during the flight, said on Sunday. In the evening of Monday, in the pine forest in the east of Texas there has been found the nose part of the crashed American space shuttle Columbia. english.pravda.ru /usa/2003/02/28/43833.html   (688 words)

HoustonChronicle.com - Space plane, new launch vehicle years away Other scientists say the orbital space plane is sufficient for carrying people and that newer rockets, like the Delta IV, are all NASA needs to launch payloads into space. Although the space plane would save money, perhaps eventually costing less than $100 million per launch compared with the shuttle's $450 million cost, it could not carry heavy equipment and materials into space. That initiative lost half its funds, $2.4 billion, to the orbital space plane with O'Keefe's decision. www.chron.com /cs/CDA/story.hts/space/1770410   (2186 words)

Challenger Paper That is, the Shuttle engineering and management decisions were made to meet the needs of organizational, political, and economic factors as opposed to a single entity mission profile with specific goals (Ref, Ibid. Globally, the Shuttle was sold as a partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and as a means to improve national and social relations by combining different nationalities, races and sexes to act as crew members. Although the destruction of the Shuttle Challenger was caused by the hardware failure of a solid rocket booster (SRB) "O" ring, this paper will show that the human decision to launch was, in itself flawed. frontpage.hypermall.com /jforrest/challenger/challenger_sts.htm   (1041 words)

Nat' Academies Press, Post-Challenger Evaluation of Space Shuttle Risk Assessment and Management (1988) This increase resulted from the reevaluation of the entire Space Shuttle system and the new ground rules specified for the preparation of FMEAs- e.g., the carrying of analyses down to the indiviclual component level (even where multiple, identical components are involved) and the inclusion of pressure vessels which were formerly exclucled (see Section 3.5.2~. As a case in point, it is clear from the report of the Rogers Commission, and from statements made to the Committee by NASA personnel involved, that the lines of au- thority and responsibility in the flight readiness review decision-making chain had become vague by the time of mission 51-~. Critical items in the Shuttle system are catego- rized according to the consequences of worst-case failure of that item. www.nap.edu /openbook/NI000494/html/40.html   (1041 words)

New Scientist Breaking News - Bill calls for NASA to complete space station He also told USA Today that the decision in the 1970s to replace the Apollo programme with the reusable space shuttle "was not the right path", adding "we are now trying to change the path while doing as little damage as we can." Howard McCurdy, a space policy expert at American University in Washington DC, interprets Griffin's remarks as a bid to boost support for NASA's new plan to return to the Moon. In 2002, plans for the habitation module were axed, along with a larger emergency escape vehicle, due to an overrun of $4 billion on the space station budget. www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn8077   (1041 words)

MILITARY USES FOR SPACE It was decided that NASA would develop the space transportation system and Eastern Shuttle Launch Site, while DOD would develop a new higher-energy upper stage and the Western Shuttle Launch Site. The decision to develop a reusable launch vehicle was based on the assumption that a national system could be established to satisfy both civil and military requirements. In October 1985, the West Coast Shuttle Launch Facility at Vandenberg AFB, California, was activated to support launch operations. www.airpower.au.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1985/nov-dec/brandt.html   (1041 words)

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia NASA planned to return the space shuttle to service around September 2004. The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia over Texas on February 1, 2003, during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere on its 28th mission, STS-107. The expansion of International Space Station was also delayed, as the space shuttles were the delivery vehicle for station modules. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster   (1041 words)

NASA Looks to Replace Space Shuttle With Orbital Space Plane SpaceRef - Your Space Reference The Space Shuttle figures very prominently in NASA's future plans - with its life likely to reach well into the next decade with development of advanced 'third' generation reusable launch systems to slip into the future. A substantial portion (more than $2.3 billion between FY 2003 and 2007) of the Space Launch Initiative's $4.8 billion will be spent in the coming years on other programs such as the Orbital Space Plane, ISS, Life and Microgravity sciences, and Space Shuttle "enhancements". In its deliberations on re-toolling the ISTP, NASA HQ now refers to it as the "Orbital Space Plane." The current concept favored by NASA HQ involves launching the Orbital Space Plane aboard an EELV (Delta IV and/or Atlas V) rocket. www.spaceref.com /news/viewnews.html?id=550   (876 words)

SPACE.com -- NASA Receives Crew Exploration Vehicle Proposals McKenzie said that Lockheed Martin stands ready to work with NASA to help realize a stated objective of incoming NASA chief, Michael Griffin — to try and close the gap between shutdown of the shuttle in 2010 and operating a piloted CEV in 2014. “Basically what we came down on was the side of safety for the crew in making our decision to go with a lifting body,” said Patrick McKenzie, CEV Business Development Manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. Astrosociology is the study of astrosocial phenomena (social/cultural patterns related to space), a multidisciplinary field open to all scientists and engineers interested in "space and society" issues. www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/050503_cev_nasa.html   (803 words)

USATODAY.com - New hope for Hubble No one foresaw 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the space shuttle Columbia disaster and its subsequent demands for improvements to the remaining shuttles. "All of us are very happy, excited, and gratified," says Preston Burch, program manager for the telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "But we're also aware of the caveats. A final decision will depend on how well the shuttles perform when they return to flight, now scheduled for mid-July. www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2005-05-26-hubble-debate_x.htm   (1159 words)

EPA: Federal Register: National Environmental Policy Act; International Space Station Program The Tier 1 EIS was prepared as part of the decision process to determine whether to proceed with the development, assembly, and operation of a human occupied space station in cooperation with the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and Japan's National Space Development Agency. Accordingly, resupply flights to the completed ISS will now include Russian as well as U.S. flights; whereas Space Station Freedom was to be resupplied exclusively by U.S. Space Shuttle flights. David Ruszczyk, NASA Johnson Space Flight Center, Code OF, Houston, Texas 77058-3696. www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1995/May/Day-23/pr-903.html   (1159 words)

r92-68 Melnick flew on Space Shuttle missions STS-41 in October 1990 to deploy the Ulysses Jupiter probe and STS-49 in May 1992 to retrieve, repair and reboost the Intelsat-VI telecommunications satellite. He has represented the Astronaut Office at KSC in preparing the Shuttle orbiters' cockpit and middeck for missions and in assembly and checkout of the new Space Shuttle Endeavour at contractor facilities in California. Ed Campion Headquarters, Washington, D.C. May 19,1992 (Phone: 202/453-8536) Jack Riley Johnson Space Center, Houston (Phone: 713/483-5111) RELEASE: 92-68 ASTRONAUT MELNICK TO RETIRE AND LEAVE NASA Astronaut Bruce E. Melnick (Commander, USCG) is retiring from the U.S. Coast Guard and will be leaving NASA in July. science.ksc.nasa.gov /shuttle/missions/status/r92-68   (258 words)

Nominee Backs a Review Of NASA's Hubble Decision Michael D. Griffin, President Bush's nominee to become the new NASA administrator, told senators at his confirmation hearing yesterday that he would reassess the agency's decision to cancel a space shuttle mission to service the aging Hubble Space Telescope. Several lawmakers said they were anxious to have a NASA administrator in place during the run-up to the scheduled May flight of the space shuttle, which has been grounded for more than two years since the Columbia disaster. Griffin also said he would do his best to hasten the development of a new spacecraft to replace the shuttle, noting that the scheduled retirement of the orbiter in 2010 could begin a five-year period in which the United States would have to use foreign-built spaceships for manned flights until a replacement is ready. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/12/AR2005041201646.html   (725 words)

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