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Man, I wish I could go into space...I don't have $10 million or so discretionary spending money though. :P Think we'll get to a place where space tourism is possible? It's still fun to dream!

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"ADM Willard played the role of the bad guy wearing the black helmut in Top Gun the movie, but the stunt double for Tom Cruise in that movie was played by former US Navy fighter pilot Scott Altman, who is leading the space shuttle Atlantis mission."
-Observations of an Armchair Admiral, Observing STS-125
http://informationdissemination.blogspot.com/2009/05/observing-sts-125
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Top Gun: The gayest movie of all time

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STS-125 is classed as the most dangerous of the remaining flights of the Shuttle, and will require a second Shuttle to be on launch pad at the time of the launch. Pad 39-B will be required for this stand-by role. STS-125 will also be considered the Final Solo flight of a Space Shuttle Orbiter.
www.aerospaceguide.net/spaceshuttle/sts125.html

HI-RES PHOTO: nasa.gov/images/content/331773main_2pad_full.jpg

STS-125 marks the fifth Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, a mission re-instated following public and political pressure in the wake of former NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe’s 2004 decision to cancel the flight due to concerns that Columbia-like damage would be irreparable and that the Space Shuttle could not sustain a crew in orbit long enough for a rescue mission to be mounted.
www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/military/read.main/93719/

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T+1:15 (M) What happened? What happened? Oh God, no - no!
T+1:17 (F) Oh dear God.
T+1:18 (M) Turn on your air pack! Turn on your air...
T+1:20 (M) Can't breathe... choking...
T+1:21 (M) Lift up your visor!
T+1:22 (M/F) (Screams.) It's hot. (Sobs.) I can't. Don't tell me... God! Do it...now...
T+1:24 (M) I told them... I told them... Dammit! Resnik don't...
T+1:27 (M) Take it easy! Move (unintelligible)...
T+1:28 (F) Don't let me die like this. Not now. Not here...
T+1:31 (M) Your arm... no... I (extended garble, static)
T+1:36 (F) I'm... passing... out...
T+1:37 (M) We're not dead yet.
T+1:40 (M) If you ever wanted (unintelligible) me a miracle... (unintelligible)... (screams)
T+1:41 (M) She's... she's... (garble) ... damn!
T+1:50 (M) Can't breathe...
T+1:51 (M/F) (screams) Jesus Christ! No!
T+1:54 (M) She's out.
T+1:55 (M) Lucky... (unintelligible).
T+1:56 (M) God. The water... we're dead! (screams)
T+2:00 (F) Goodbye (sobs)... I love you, I love you...
T+2:03 (M) Loosen up... loosen up...
T+2:07 (M) It'll just be like a ditch landing...
T+2:09 (M) That's right, think positive.
T+2:11 (M) Ditch procedure...
T+2:14 (M) No way!
T+2:17 (M) Give me your hand...
T+2:19 (M) You awake in there? I... I...
T+2:29 (M) Our Father... (unintelligible)...
T+2:42 (M) ...hallowed be Thy name... (unintelligible).
T+2:57 (M) You...over there?
T+2:58 (M) The Lord is my shepherd, I shall...not want. He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures... though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear
no evil... I will dwell in the house...
T+3:15 to end None. Static, silence.


Challenger crew cabin: NASA forgot to install a parachute... DOH!

http://history.nasa.gov/transcript.html

www.aerospaceweb.org/question/conspiracy/q0258.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

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"The cost of each launch has turned out to be 100 times greater than originally planned. Two of the first 113 flights ended in catastrophe. The shuttle has a 1-in-56 chance of not making it back. The FAA noted that if airlines had the same accident rate as the shuttle, we would lose 40 airplanes every day."
-Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, Disturbing Shuttle Discoveries: Consign shuttle to scrap heap, 2 Aug 2005
www.azstarnet.com/sn/related/86705

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

What sort of sociopathic ass hole are you? Is there a name for the mental handicap from which you suffer ?

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Space Shuttle Columbia Funeral Song
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3734518559578754313

"The cost of each launch has turned out to be 100 times greater than originally planned. Two of the first 113 flights ended in catastrophe. The shuttle has a 1-in-56 chance of not making it back. The FAA noted that if airlines had the same accident rate as the shuttle, we would lose 40 airplanes every day."
-Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, Disturbing Shuttle Discoveries: Consign shuttle to scrap heap, 2 Aug 2005
www.azstarnet.com/sn/related/86705

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"The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating, not feeling my weight, and hanging by a window, just after sunset, and watch the stars in the big black dome of the sky, as the Earth moves underneath. I somehow try to find 10 - 15 minutes every day to do that. I think most mornings I try to continue to postpone my meals so I can do that. It's kind of fun because I have to watch where the food is going because my eyes are really glued to the outside. It is just absolutely amazing, magical, wonderful feeling to do that."
-Dr Kalpana Chawla PhD, Shuttle Columbia STS-107 Disaster, CSPAN interview from space, famous last words

"She loved looking at the Earth and at the stars. She said the stars from space are unbelievable, because it's just so much brighter."
-brother of Dr Laurel Clark, CNN Shuttle Columbia Disaster

"We were never able to see stars from the Lunar surface or on the daylight side of the Moon, by eye, without looking through the optics, I don't recall..."
-Lt Neil Armstrong, Apollo II press conference
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1754803469580790620

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
The possibility that we are being KEPT on Earth as fodder for the consumer cycle is not out of the question.

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A nuclear aircraft is an aircraft powered by nuclear energy. Research into them was pursued during the Cold War by the United States and the Soviet Union as they would presumably allow a country to keep nuclear bombers in the air for extremely long periods of time, a useful tactic for nuclear deterrence. Neither country created any nuclear aircraft in production numbers. One design problem, never adequately solved, was the need for heavy shielding to protect the crew from radiation poisoning. Unmanned missiles have been designed to use nuclear thermal rockets, but such designs were considered too dangerous for crews to actually fly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_aircraft

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
PirateNews: Those nuclear planes are called that because they use NUCLEAR fuel. That's why they needed crew shielding, not because they were low-orbit.

That ten feet of water, or six inches of lead, as far as I'm aware, is only necessary in the presence of gamma radiation. Besides, we wouldn't just be talking people. If there's no space travel possible on account of gamma radiation, we can't have satellites either. The instruments are very sensitive.

Do you believe we have satellites? Long range missles?

However... Your talk of using magnetism reminds me of some recent breakthroughs in plasma actuators. Although they're more useful for streamlining the craft through a bubble of actual particles than high energy electromagnetic radiation...

But at this point, I kinda think everything I'm saying is being ignored, so I'm just going to quit. You don't think space colonization is possible for technical reasons, I think it may not be possible because of political, in the end we're both reaching the same general conclusion.

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In 1998, the Space Shuttle flew to one of its highest altitudes ever, three hundred fifty miles, hundreds of miles below merely the beginning of the Van Allen Radiation Belts. Inside of their shielding, superior to that which the Appollo astronauts possessed, the shuttle astronauts reported being able to "see" the radiation with their eyes closed penetrating their shielding as well as the retinas of their closed eyes. For a dental x-ray on Earth which lasts 1/100th of a second we wear a 1/4-inch lead vest. Imagine what it would be like to endure an hour and a half of radiation that you can see with your eyes closed from hundreds of miles away with 1/8th-inch of aluminum shielding!

After this new generation of NASA astronauts encountered this unpredicted surprise, CNN issued the following report:

"The radiation belts surrounding the Earth may be more dangerous for astronauts than previously believed. The phcenonmenon known as the 'Van Allen Radiation Belts' can spawn 'Killer Electrons' that can dramatically affect the astronauts' health."

www.moonmovie.com

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I don't think we ever landed a man on the moon. Back in 69' I was one of the true believers until years later my father, a former OSS/CIA agent, told me that we had NOT.

To date, no one has ever captured a photo of Tranquility Base, nor have any moon orbiting satellites ever photographed to resolution any other landing sites - YET, I can go to Google Earth and view a satellite photo of my house and see both of my cars parked in the driveway - from more than 150 miles in space. One car is green and the other is red. But, we are yet unable to photograph an alleged historical vehicle on the lunar surface which is three times larger than an automobile.

Then, NASA claims that laser reflector targets were placed at various landing sites and the University of Texas regularly measures the distance to the moon in centimeters. Yet in the same paragraph, the writer says that the return laser signal usually amounts to only one or two photons??? Come on now....any astronomer will tell you that there are TRILLIONS of stray photons striking the reflective telescope mirrors (Newtonian) but somehow NASA is able to distinguish 3 or 4 of of those photons as originating from the moon?

The then new CIA needed someone for work in the aerospace industry which was in its' infancy back in the 1950's. He was sent to work at North American Aviation (NAA). In fact, my fathers' pilots who cheauffered him from time to time between the Downey and Inglewood manufacturing plants in a Navion private airplane were famous test pilots Maj. George S. Welch and Bob Hoover.

My father sat in on highly classified meetings between NAA the US military (USN & USAF). His job was to take the official minutes of the meetings in shorthand and later type them for dissemination to those on the official "need to know" routing list.

In the mid-70's, my Dad came down with lymphatic cancer. I would go over to his house on Saturdays, have a few beers and shoot the breeze with him. We talked about everything. Up to that time, he was a very secretive person. I knew that he had been involved in some real 'out of the box' projects but was reluctant to talk about them.

A few months prior to his death, we were once again spending Saturday afternoons together sippin' the suds and shootin' the breeze. The subject of men landing on the moon came up and and he said to me, "I'm going to tell you something....we NEVER set foot on the moon." He went on to say that it was all a big show. He also told me that the movie Capricorn I would blow the lid off of the US space program. Ever since that movie aired, more and more people are questioning whether or not we made it to the moon.

In the 1990's, I met the head of the Russian Yakovlev Aircraft Design Bureau from Orenburg, Russia. The meeting occurred at Kelly Space Technologies in San Bernardino, California. Sergei (as he requested I refer to him) was a very old man and we were both pencil and paper designers. We sat and talked for several hours at great length. I told Sergei that we were both at opposite ends of the pole so to speak. He had worked under the thumb of the KGB and my father had been with the OSS and later the CIA. I told him what my father told me about the so-called lunar landings and asked if he thought we "made it" to the moon. He looked me straight in the eye and very gently, very slowly, without saying a word, moved his head in the negative. I didn't pursue the matter any further, fully believing the subject was extremely uncomfortable for Sergei.

So, there you have it. My words are predicated on what my father, a former OSS/CIA agent, and a top Russian aerospace engineer told me in very few words and with the nod of a head.

www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8853502343317735026&postID=3025878200
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STS125 EVA#1 Observations by Pirate News

At 1:45 NASA Mission Control says STS, "they trained in the NBL Neutral Bouyancy Laboratory underwater training for the spacewalks 10 hours for every one hour of actual EVA time in space."

At 8:52 NASA Mission Control tells astronot working on Hubble in space, "Could you get a diver to hold up your end?"

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