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![]() It looks like Katrina is going to affect NASA's planned March Space Shuttle launch: Hurricane Katrina has indefinitely idled the Louisiana factory that assembles space shuttle fuel tanks, and NASA said it is looking to see if other facilities can make critical tank repairs. NASA had tentatively planned its next shuttle mission for March, but additional delays were likely due to interruptions in the tank repair work that must be done before the shuttle can fly again. The agency was primarily focused on trying to find the employees and contractors who work at the assembly plant in Louisiana, as well as a field center in Mississippi where space shuttle engines are tested. Both sites were in the path of Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed huge sections of the U.S. Gulf Coast when it blasted ashore with 145 mph (232 kph) winds on Monday. NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans and the Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss., appear to have sustained roof and water damage in the storm. Neither was expected to resume operations soon. Roads to Michoud were still under water and hundreds of people employed by plant operator LOCKHEED MARTIN lost their homes in the hurricane. (Reuters 03:57 PM ET 09/02/2005) Mo http://q1.schwab.com/s/r?l=248&a=112...a&s=rb050 902 |
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Larry Dighera wrote: NASA had tentatively planned its next shuttle mission for March, I thought NASA had grounded the fleet indefinitely. (yet, there is an STS-121 scheduled for March on the NASA website). -- Bob Noel no one likes an educated mule |
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There are many things to do like crew training so they put an X on the
calendar and work to it hoping they can solve the problems and fly. "Bob Noel" wrote in message ... In article , Larry Dighera wrote: NASA had tentatively planned its next shuttle mission for March, I thought NASA had grounded the fleet indefinitely. (yet, there is an STS-121 scheduled for March on the NASA website). -- Bob Noel no one likes an educated mule |
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On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:56:43 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote in :: In article , Larry Dighera wrote: NASA had tentatively planned its next shuttle mission for March, I thought NASA had grounded the fleet indefinitely. (yet, there is an STS-121 scheduled for March on the NASA website). This page says 'no earlier than March': http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st..._overview.html Expedition 12: Veteran Crewmen for ISS Science, Assembly Prep 08.24.05 Two veteran crewmembers will make up the 12th crew of the International Space Station since continuous human presence began on the orbiting laboratory in November 2000. Image to left: From left are, Expedition 12 crewmembers Commander William McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, as they train inside a mockup of the Station's Destiny laboratory at Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. Credit: NASA In addition to marking the fifth anniversary of this uninterrupted presence of men and women in space, the crewmembers also will bring the Station into the new year and welcome the resumption of Space Shuttle flights to their home in orbit. The six-month-plus stay of Expedition 12 will focus on Station assembly preparations, maintenance and science in microgravity. The commander is William McArthur, 54, a retired Army colonel. Cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, 52, a Russian Air Force colonel, will serve as flight engineer and Soyuz commander. McArthur is making his fourth flight into space. Tokarev visited the Station in his previous spaceflight, on a Shuttle mission in 1999. McArthur and Tokarev will launch on a Soyuz spacecraft in early October from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. With them will be Gregory Olsen, 60, who will spend eight days on the Station under a contract with Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency. He will be the third private citizen to reach the Station. Image to right: From left are, Expedition 12 crewmembers Commander William McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, along with Space Flight Participant Greg Olsen. Credit: NASA McArthur and Tokarev will spend more than a week with their predecessors, Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Science Officer John Phillips. Handover includes briefings on Station safety, systems, procedures, equipment and science. Olsen will return to Earth on Expedition 11's Soyuz with Krikalev and Phillips. McArthur and Tokarev were to have been joined during Expedition 12 by European Space Agency Astronaut Thomas Reiter of Germany, 47. He was to fly into space on the STS-121 mission. With that Shuttle mission delayed until no earlier than March 2006, Reiter would arrive at the ISS in the final days of the Expedition 12 increment. Reiter, who flew for six months on the Russian space station Mir, would be the first non-American or non-Russian long-duration crewmember on the Station. He will fly under a commercial agreement between ESA and Roscosmos. Image to left: European Space Agency Astronaut Thomas Reiter. Credit: NASA ... |
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