Jonathan Wojack writes: "Please excuse me for saying so, but not giving out the launch time more than 24 hours in advance for a mission to an object in orbit (i.e., ISS) is a joke. The policy only works for missions to just Earth orbit (no rendenzvous)." I think we're pretty much all agreed on that issue. And this NASA policy seemed pretty silly to me until I heard a little bit more about the *only* non-ISS mission for the next couple of years. All of the shuttle flights will be travelling to ISS except STS-107 which is scheduled for July 11. STS-107 is a standard shuttle research flight, probably the last of those for years to come. Nothing too interesting about that, but this flight has one newsworthy feature. It will carry the first Israeli astronaut into space: Colonel Ilan Ramon of the Israeli Air Force. Clearly, this shuttle launch could be a major target for terrorism. Security for that launch will probably be unprecedented. Colonel Ramon's bio: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/PS/ramon.html Details on STS-107: http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/research_projects/sts107.html Regards, Frank E. Reed http://www.clockwk.com/fer Chicago, IL ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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