BillyVance 35 #1 July 23, 2007 Sounds like a fun job to me! http://news.aol.com/story/_a/tossed-in-space-astronaut-cleans-up/20070723141309990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CSpenceFLY 1 #2 July 23, 2007 It's not enough we have junked up our planet but now we don't ever have the since to not junk up space. It would be kind of ironic if a piece of our own space junk took out a shuttle or the space station. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #3 July 23, 2007 Quote It's not enough we have junked up our planet but now we don't ever have the since to not junk up space. It would be kind of ironic if a piece of our own space junk took out a shuttle or the space station. Not if, but when."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
point_code 0 #4 July 23, 2007 yeah, what's up with that?? We can get a ticket and hefty fine for throwing a harmless candybar wrapper out the car window, But the Government can jettison potentially deadly garbage into space? Anybody remember the "Skylab"? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 892 #5 July 23, 2007 but NASA maps and tracks all space particles in orbit. they say they know where a few wrenches are. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
point_code 0 #6 July 23, 2007 makes perfect sense........ Let's buy some $10,000.00 monkey wrenches, toss them out of the space shuttle, then invest another million or two to track their orbit so we'll know if they are about to collide with a rogue camera mount. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #7 July 23, 2007 Quote Quote It's not enough we have junked up our planet but now we don't ever have the since to not junk up space. It would be kind of ironic if a piece of our own space junk took out a shuttle or the space station. Not if, but when. It almost did. This is a picture of a 15/100 inch crater left on the windshield of the Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-7 in 1983) when it was hit by a fleck of paint estimated to be 8/1000 of an inch traveling at a relative velocity of an estimated 3 miles per second. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #8 July 23, 2007 Quotemakes perfect sense........ Let's buy some $10,000.00 monkey wrenches, toss them out of the space shuttle, then invest another million or two to track their orbit so we'll know if they are about to collide with a rogue camera mount. And seeing as how it probably cost over two million dollars just to get that junk up there, the fastball is about as expensive as Barry Zito's. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #9 July 24, 2007 Barry Zito has a fastball??????My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlyinDawg 0 #10 July 24, 2007 They suppose to upgrade cargo size in several years ago but never attempt it.Flyin' Dawg or SkyDog "To understand is to forgive, even oneself." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #11 July 24, 2007 Quote but NASA maps and tracks all space particles in orbit. they say they know where a few wrenches are. Yep, they do. I don't know how they do it, but they manage. The one sticking point in the story is that while the camera is expected to completely burn up on re-entry, the big ass tank won't, a few small pieces of it will make it all the way down. They're "hoping" those pieces will hit the ocean... They can map and see all the junk floating in space, but can't guarantee where the shit hits the fan on earth... "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #12 July 24, 2007 Why not send up one big-ass electromagnet and clean up that mess? Think of the scrap value!My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #14 July 24, 2007 Litter Bug (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darius11 12 #15 July 24, 2007 QuoteNASA normally tries to avoid adding to the orbiting junkyard, but officials felt they had no choice in this case. The equipment had to be removed, and because of a looming 2010 deadline for ending all shuttle flights, NASA does not have room on its remaining missions to return the tank to Earth. Why no more shuttle flights?I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #16 July 24, 2007 QuoteBarry Zito has a fastball?????? Yep, he just doesn't throw it often. Hence, the money "per fastball." It's why I didn't compare it to Joel Zumaya, who relies on his heater. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 892 #17 July 24, 2007 new program to spend our tax dollars..errr...replace the current space vehicle. it will be just like deja vu all over again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #18 July 24, 2007 Quote Why not send up one big-ass electromagnet and clean up that mess? Think of the scrap value! Hate to break it to you Pops, but the aerospace industry uses a hell of a lot more aluminum and composites than steel."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #19 July 24, 2007 Quote Quote NASA normally tries to avoid adding to the orbiting junkyard, but officials felt they had no choice in this case. The equipment had to be removed, and because of a looming 2010 deadline for ending all shuttle flights, NASA does not have room on its remaining missions to return the tank to Earth. Why no more shuttle flights? The shuttle fleet is aging, and they are not building any new ones, and the current shuttles still in service are becoming too expensive and complicated to service. NASA has elected to go with a totally new design and concept for future manned flight. It could mean a decade or so before the first flight of the new rocket. Which of course, probably means depending on Russia's Soyuz program to get our astronauts up and back down for the time being. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 892 #20 July 24, 2007 Orion edited to add: Heyyyy....does L/M make their own canopies or will Strong get some work outta this new design? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
