[FPSPACE] Saga of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the ISS

[Keith Gottschalk]

   In discussions on FPSPACE some years ago, others answered me asking
this quesion by saying that STS still had one operation that had not yet
been automated - ordering the undercarriage to lower.
But it should not be beyond NASA's software developers & robotics
contractors to automate this?

Keith

>>> Robert Law <robert_law at yahoo.com> 03/06/08 11:44 PM >>>
>yes !, I remember reading about this soume time ago , I think NASA was
not to keen to risc loosing a shuttle via remote 
>control , if the russians could do the same with buran  it should not
be a problem
>   
>  Robert
>
>LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com> wrote:
>  
>
>Can the Space Shuttle be launched and manuevered in orbit without a
crew?
>
>Larry
>
>
>>From: palladium at aol.com 
>>To: jeoberg at comcast.net, ljk4 at msn.com, fpspace at friends-partners.org 
>>Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] The Saga of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
and the 
>>ISS
>>Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:51:30 -0500
>>
>>Jim et al:
>>
>>One other possibility:
>>
>>Elon Musk's Dragon cargo / crew transport capsule is supposed to be 
>>flight-ready by 2010. This can hold 6 crew members:
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon 
>>
>>Perhaps NASA could contract to have a Falcon 9 / Dragon standing by
with a 
>>one or two-person crew and five empty seats?
>>
>>I also wonder if the Dragon might answer the need for a
large-capacity crew 
>>rescue vehicle for the station and enable it to start hosting larger

>>long-duration crews?
>>
>>Dave Michaels
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: James Oberg 
>>To: LARRY KLAES ; fpspace at friends-partners.org 
>>Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:07 am
>>Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] The Saga of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
and the 
>>ISS
>>
>>
>>The last scheduled shuttle mission in 2010 will have a 'rescue
shuttle'
>>ready to pick up the crew if needed, with a four person crew
>>(clearly a very veteran set of astronauts) fully trained and ready
>>to make the 'LAST PLUS ONE' shuttle mission.
>>
>>NASA is considering using that flight as the bonus transport
>>mission, perhaps for AMS and other spares.
>>
>>But it needs a crew rescue option in the event the mission
>>suffers lethal heat shield damage and is stranded on the
>>space station.
>>
>>There is one tantalizing option: fly the mission with a
>>three-person crew and have a Soyuz vehicle on
>>standby for pickup. Or instead of all three landing
>>in a Soyuz that came up empty, split them up in a
>>normal crew down-rotation AND a later rescue-devoted
>>additional Soyuz.
>>
>>Because of the larger station crew, and the much smaller
>>shuttle crew in need of rescue, the supplies needed for
>>the previous shuttle crew's 90-day stayover could last
>>six months or more, significantly relaxing the time-criticality
>>of retrieval of the stranded shuttle crew.
>>
>>It -- might -- work.

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