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| ||||| Thursday, January 17, 2002 - 04:07 pm At what time is it over the U.S. at nighttime. Also , when would ever dismantel it. | |
| ||||| Friday, January 18, 2002 - 10:29 am For sighting info from your own backyard, goto: spacecraft sighting As to when it would be dismantled - not really our expertise. The assembly of the station is set to be complete in 2004-2005... and how long it may stay in orbit after that may be undetermined at this point. | |
| ||||| Saturday, January 19, 2002 - 11:38 am What is the max speed of the space shuttle Columbia? When any of your shuttles land are any of the engines on? | |
| ||||| Saturday, January 19, 2002 - 08:48 pm The shuttle lands without any of its engines. As a result, it is nicknamed "The flying brick". This means that the commander only has one shot to land, he cannot gun the engines to go around for another pass. | |
| ||||| Saturday, January 19, 2002 - 10:33 pm What is the max speed of a shuttle in space? | |
| ||||| Sunday, January 20, 2002 - 12:36 pm A shuttle typically orbits the earth at 17,500 mph. It takes about 90 minutes to orbit the earth and the astronauts see a sunrise every 45 minutes. Is that the max? I am not sure as the shuttle's main engines are shut off just before insertion into orbit. | |
| ||||| Sunday, January 20, 2002 - 08:38 pm Wher do write from to answer questions from us? | |
| ||||| Sunday, January 20, 2002 - 11:14 pm What is the max speed of the shuttle transporter at the launch pad? | |
| ||||| Monday, January 21, 2002 - 10:39 pm How long does it take you to write back? | |
| ||||| Tuesday, January 22, 2002 - 11:12 am We check-up on the discussion board a couple of times a day. So depending on when we happen to look at it. | |
| ||||| Tuesday, January 22, 2002 - 10:13 pm What is the max speed of the shuttle transporter at the launch pad? | |
| ||||| Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 08:41 am Tyler, Is this a trick question? I'd say that the max speed of the shuttle at the launch pad is zero (kph or mph). | |
| ||||| Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 10:54 am If your're talking about the shuttle transporter crawler that moves the shuttle to the launch pad - it rolls along at about 1 mph. | |
| ||||| Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 10:00 pm How long has the Hubble telescope been in orbit? | |
| ||||| Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 09:45 am HST was launched April 24, 1990. Going on 12 years. | |
| ||||| Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 04:23 pm At what altitude do the rocket booster come off the external fuel tank ? | |
| ||||| Thursday, January 24, 2002 - 09:59 pm Hard to believe that the Space Transportation System (The Space Shuttle) has been flying for close to 20 years!!!I still get goosebumps at each beautiful launch!!! | |
| ||||| Friday, January 25, 2002 - 02:07 pm The solid rocket boosters are released when the shuttle is at 150,000 feet (about 28 miles). For all sorts of launch and shuttle details, go to: reference manual | |
| ||||| Sunday, January 27, 2002 - 02:58 pm I need photo's of the space station | |
| ||||| Sunday, January 27, 2002 - 06:47 pm try: ISS images | |
| ||||| Wednesday, January 30, 2002 - 01:40 pm Will the communications aboard the ISS ever work like they do on the Shuttle? I realize the orbits and orientations are different but I'm sure that you (NASA) can figure something out. | |
| ||||| Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 03:07 pm Sorry, not our domain and nobody here knows offhand. Try: ISS | |
| ||||| Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 04:27 am I don´t want the Internationa Space Station!!! It is evil! | |
| ||||| Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 04:13 pm I heard on Fox sports net that a alien spacecraft is going to be at Salt Lake today (2-21) or in the near future have you seen any yet. | |
| ||||| Thursday, February 21, 2002 - 04:16 pm I heard on Fox sports radio (tony bruno) that a alien spacecraft is going to be at Salt Lake today (2-21) or in the near future have you seen any yet. | |
| ||||| Monday, February 25, 2002 - 03:35 pm Has the selection of food change for the astronauts since tang? As a child always felt bad for them having to eat all that freeze dried stuff. I guess more interested in the Kitchen area and preparation on ISS. | |
| ||||| Saturday, March 02, 2002 - 01:20 am Could you please speak metric to those of us in the 21-st century and to the 96 % of the worlds population, such as myself, who don't have a clue as to what "mph" is? Or any of those pseudo-units from prehistoric times? Thanks | |
| ||||| Saturday, March 02, 2002 - 07:16 pm Shuttle speed is 1.9 milliard leagues per fortnight | |
| ||||| Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 11:53 am Is there any chance that the Hubble Telescope will be attached to the international Space Station -- as opposed to being mothballed in 2010? Thanks | |
| ||||| Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 02:19 pm Very little chance in my opinion. ISS is at a very different inclination than HST (about 50 vs. 28.5 for HST). It would take a lot of fuel to get HST to ISS. For example, using all of the available fuel, we can change the Shuttle's inclination only about 3 degrees. http://www.edcheung.com/job/sm3b/sm3b.htm | |
| ||||| Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 02:21 pm Not very likely. The orbit of the space station is at a much higher inclination than that of the Hubble. That is to say that the plane of the space station orbit is much more tilted with respect to the equator than the plane of the Hubble orbit. To alter the inclination of an orbit requires prohibitively large amounts of propulsion | |
| ||||| Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 02:39 pm Even more important, we would not want to do this. HST is a highly stable astronomical observatory, the Space Station is not. Also the traffic at the Space Station would likely cause contamination concerns. | |
| ||||| Saturday, March 09, 2002 - 11:09 am Was the international space station involved in the Hubble Repair? BPike01@aol | |
| ||||| Saturday, March 09, 2002 - 01:04 pm No, it was not. | |
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