I might be going back in August, September, or October.

Interestingly, when I was at Camp in '99 we had a lecture from Dr. George von Tiesenhausen, one of the von Braun germans. Dr. von T is very interesting. Did he tell you that Mars was your planet? He stressed that when he lectured us. Did anyone fall asleep in his lecture? This, apparently, is a big...

We can still operate the shuttle and station while we go to the moon. It would be a waste to scrap the ISS so far into it. I agree that NASA moves too slow. So does Chris Kraft. On page 72: I look back now and shake my head. Today the government may spend a year thinking about, then preparing, a Req...

Yeah, but if they had inspected it and knew about a potentially fatal problem, they wouldn't have reentered until it was fixed. I don't know what they could have done, but they would have figured something out.

LB206 wrote:Well i must admit the accident has sparked some new interest but still not enough.

I agree. The next launch will get a lot of coverage, and so will the landing, but it will start to dwindle after that.

I'm leaning away from the tile theory. I don't know who I am to disagree with a NASA review board, but it doesn't seem to me that a few damaged tiles would cause this problem.

Well, 5 days isn't much time (or six, depending on when you go, but it is harder to break the PDA rules in the summer because there are so many people around).

It occured to me that much hasn't been said about the X-Prize in the Hab Forum. There were some comments about it in a thread about Lance Bass, but that's all. So, I thought I'd start a thread by telling you what I think of the X-Prize: I think that the X-Prize is great. In the same way that Lindber...

LB206 wrote:Well i never had a camper romance but sure wanted to plenty of times especially my last 2 years.

Same for me.

Hey guys....I am a space camp team leader. You would be so shocked at how many space camp romances there are. Just ask some team leaders and sims operators and you'll see. Brent made a ton of comments about counselor romances the last time I went. And lets not forget about the campers. Though it vi...

LB206 wrote:That was a beautiful memorial. Brought goosebumps to my skin and a tear to my eye.

I think it does that for everyone. At least it certainly affected me.

A well done Columbia memorial: http://www.interviewwithgod.com/columbia/

LB206 wrote:Well its true they were all horrible lets just hope we wont see it happen again. Unfortunately the odds are it will someday.

Its sucks, but this is a dangerous business.

That's very cool. I'm certainly printing this one.

The astronauts hated the craft. They knew it wasn't safe.

They used a lot of flammable things on Apollo 1 that they haven't used since. They went nuts with the Velcro. Since then, they've limited the number of flammable things and the amount of Velcro.

I'm just wondering what the space camp community thought. For many, it is Apollo 1 because it occured during a test just a few hundred feet above the ground. http://www.astronomy-search.com/images/Apollo/Apollo1/Command_Module_after_flash_fire_2.jpg For some, it's STS-51L, maybe becuase they're a te...

I was in MOCR right after you guys. Brent and Drea were going crazy with us. The crews had similar problems, but nothing like we had. Many were our own fault. For example, nobody bothered to watch the waste levels, and so Enterprise's crew was covered in their own byproducts. I'm glad I didn't have ...

LB206 wrote:Ok here we are another PAO announcement. I'll keep posting them as they are released. Hopefully sometime in the near future i can stop posting these and start posting shuttle status reports again when the orbiters return to flight.

I'll be glad for that day, too.