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No shuttle flights until foam loss is understood

SteveS — 7/27/2005 11:45:17 PM (archived)

From: Spaceflight Now

Camera aboard Discovery took this at seperation.

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• Probable delay in next shuttle launch - Delbert - 7/27/2005 10:57:00 PM
  • Strike One... - Nick Hoffman - 7/28/2005 12:57:22 AM
    • NASA maybe screwed - Gary - 7/28/2005 3:55:36 AM
    • THIS will be the Shuttle's last hurray! - Buck Galaxy - 7/28/2005 3:47:41 AM
      • Be careful what you wish for - Gary - 7/28/2005 3:58:02 AM
        • Those guys have already lost the battle - Buck Galaxy - 7/28/2005 4:10:29 AM
          • This stuff is hard to do - Gary - 7/28/2005 5:40:12 AM
            • Plus, people forget how long it took to develop Apollo - Larry J - 7/28/2005 1:32:10 PM
              • Waste Anything but Time - ljk - 8/3/2005 3:16:38 PM
              • There was about a 5 year percolation period before Kennedy's speech - Gary - 7/28/2005 4:25:07 PM
                • Ditto on launchers - dtb - 7/28/2005 9:18:37 PM
                • re: There was about a 5 year percolation period before Kennedy's speech - ljk - 7/28/2005 6:51:56 PM
                  • Computing power and engineering success - Robert - 7/29/2005 3:02:34 AM
                    • Rutan's method - Larry J - 7/29/2005 3:41:45 PM
                      • And Why Couldn't That Be Used To Test Artificial Gravity Concepts? - Mark Eby - 7/30/2005 2:47:45 AM
                        • Testing in Earth orbit is a good idea - Larry J - 7/31/2005 8:22:33 PM
                      • Interesting - Robert - 7/29/2005 4:30:00 PM
                        • What happened at Lockheed's Skunk Works after Kelly Johnson retired? - Larry J - 7/29/2005 7:08:39 PM
                          • re: What happened at Lockheed's Skunk Works after Kelly Johnson retired? - Robert - 7/29/2005 9:32:18 PM
                      • Hypersonic aerodynamics can fool an intuitive engineer - Gary - 7/29/2005 4:07:17 PM
  • No shuttle flights until foam loss is understood - SteveS - 7/27/2005 11:45:17 PM
    • So do away with the foam. - Lee - 7/28/2005 5:36:31 AM
      • re: So do away with the foam. - drzarkov - 8/2/2005 9:31:36 PM
      • There maybe a way to contain that foam. - Jacob Samorodin - 7/30/2005 8:18:37 PM
        • re: There maybe ways to contain that foam. - Chris Vancil - 7/31/2005 8:34:25 AM
      • Why don't they put the foam on the inside? (n/t) - SDF - 7/30/2005 1:10:41 PM
        • re: Why don't they put the foam on the inside? - Tom Brosz - 7/30/2005 9:33:16 PM
      • Not at $10,000/kg - Gary - 7/28/2005 5:48:06 AM
        • Maybe they need to go back to the original foam - Larry J - 7/28/2005 1:43:06 PM
          • "Green kills." - Tom Brosz - 7/30/2005 7:07:26 AM
          • Yes - E.P. Grondine - 7/29/2005 3:06:10 AM
          • Good idea. - Tom Brosz - 7/28/2005 5:53:10 PM
          • re: Maybe they need to go back to the original foam - Delbert - 7/28/2005 2:11:32 PM
        • re: Not at $10,000/kg - Chris Vancil - 7/28/2005 7:27:39 AM
          • re: Not at $10,000/kg - Doug Ellison - 7/28/2005 8:39:47 AM
            • re: Not at $10,000/kg - Chris Vancil - 7/28/2005 9:51:59 AM
        • No foam on Energia - Lee - 7/28/2005 5:54:02 AM
          • Energia used kerosene/LOX instead of H2/LOX - Larry J - 7/28/2005 1:34:26 PM
            • No: Energia used H2/LOX for the Core - robert_d - 7/28/2005 4:54:23 PM
              • You're right - Larry J - 7/28/2005 6:15:57 PM
  • re: Probable delay in next shuttle launch - Larry J - 7/27/2005 11:43:38 PM