NASA Updates Shuttle Target Launch Dates

> April 15, 2007
> Katherine Trinidad
> Headquarters, Washington
> 202-358-3749
> Kyle Herring
> Johnson Space Center, Houston
> 281-483-5111
> RELEASE: 07-89
> NASA UPDATES SHUTTLE TARGET LAUNCH DATES
> HOUSTON - During a meeting Monday at NASA's Johnson Space Center,
> agency officials revised the target launch dates for space shuttle
> flights during the next 12 months. The space shuttle and
> International Space Station programs agreed to the changes during a
> meeting to evaluate options following the STS-117 mission's delay,
> which was caused by hail damage to the external fuel tank.
> Flights beyond April 2008 have not been assessed. Both shuttle and
> station program officials will continue to consider options for the
> remainder of the shuttle flights and those target launch dates are
> subject to change.
> Upcoming shuttle missions:
> -STS-117 targeted for no earlier than June 8, 2007, on Atlantis
> -STS-118 targeted for no earlier than Aug. 9, 2007, on Endeavour
> -STS-120 targeted for no earlier than Oct. 20, 2007, on Discovery
> instead of Atlantis
> -STS-122 targeted for no earlier than Dec. 6, 2007, on Atlantis
> instead of Discovery
> -STS-123 targeted for no earlier than Feb. 14, 2008, on Endeavour
> -STS-124 targeted for no earlier than April 24, 2008, on Discovery
> instead of Atlantis
> The shuttles for STS-120, 122 and 124 were exchanged to best meet the
> demands of the missions and to have the least amount of impact on the
> flight schedule.
> The shuttle launch manifest is available online at:
> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/iss_manifest.html
> For details on upcoming shuttle missions and their crews, visit:
> http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
> -end-

> -STS-117 targeted for no earlier than June 8, 2007, on Atlantis
> -STS-118 targeted for no earlier than Aug. 9, 2007, on Endeavour
> -STS-120 targeted for no earlier than Oct. 20, 2007, on Discovery
> instead of Atlantis
> -STS-122 targeted for no earlier than Dec. 6, 2007, on Atlantis
> instead of Discovery
> -STS-123 targeted for no earlier than Feb. 14, 2008, on Endeavour
> -STS-124 targeted for no earlier than April 24, 2008, on Discovery
> instead of Atlantis

<pulls napkin out of the drawer>

facilities, all for free <What was it Reagan sai...>, not including

<puts napkin back in drawer, thinks, "I'm going to need a bigger napkin">

reaches for nearest envelope with a clean back.>

adjustment> ... $5,000 per kilogram, yield $8.5 Billion potential market.

>
>>baalke@earthlink.net wrote:
>>Six in the next year, that's 12 reasonably sized tanks to start a LEO
>>Futures Market with. Twelve different products in the LEO Futures Market
>>started in the next year, or so. That is over .1 megakilograms of storage
>>facilities, all for free <What was it Reagan sai...>, not including
>>product.
>
> Sure in some imaginary world where we have shuttle flights carrying
> essentially nothing to orbit, thus freeing their payload capacity for
> ferrying the ET into orbit.
>
> We don't live in such a world.
>
>
> No, you need to adjust your dosages.
>
> D.