Comments on: Good Luck Discovery (Let’s hope your e-mail works) http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2006/07/04/good-luck-discovery/ Everyone has a right to my opinions Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:23:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Robert Sharp » Blog Archive » Diversity on the Space Shuttle http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2006/07/04/good-luck-discovery/#comment-96853 Robert Sharp » Blog Archive » Diversity on the Space Shuttle Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:43:20 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2006/07/04/good-luck-discovery/#comment-96853 [...] Don’t forget that there is another Shuttle Mission in progress at the moment: STS116. I’ve been listening to the cockpit communications this afternoon, which (as I have mentioned before) I find quite medative. [...] [...] Don’t forget that there is another Shuttle Mission in progress at the moment: STS116. I’ve been listening to the cockpit communications this afternoon, which (as I have mentioned before) I find quite medative. [...]

]]> By: Robert http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2006/07/04/good-luck-discovery/#comment-6124 Robert Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:50:49 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2006/07/04/good-luck-discovery/#comment-6124 I think that much of it is indeed created on the hoof, to account for the latest diagnostics and measurements. They know in advance what they are supposed to be doing, but not the exact degrees to which they should be doing it. I think that much of it is indeed created on the hoof, to account for the latest diagnostics and measurements. They know in advance what they are supposed to be doing, but not the exact degrees to which they should be doing it.

]]> By: Clarice http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2006/07/04/good-luck-discovery/#comment-6122 Clarice Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:10:55 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2006/07/04/good-luck-discovery/#comment-6122 Well, I am amazed that they have email access at all. How are they connecting to a phoneline for a start? Via their mobile phones? In which case they are dependent on their batteries and on getting a signal. It all seems highly precarious to me that they should use what is well-known on earth to be a temperamental set of technologies for the transmission of vital information. One would think that such things as mission plans could be printed out and given to them before take-off. Presumably the mission plan is created in advance and not on the hoof. And any ad hoc changes can be dictated to them, surely? Well, I am amazed that they have email access at all.

How are they connecting to a phoneline for a start? Via their mobile phones? In which case they are dependent on their batteries and on getting a signal.

It all seems highly precarious to me that they should use what is well-known on earth to be a temperamental set of technologies for the transmission of vital information.

One would think that such things as mission plans could be printed out and given to them before take-off. Presumably the mission plan is created in advance and not on the hoof. And any ad hoc changes can be dictated to them, surely?

]]> By: Kathy http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2006/07/04/good-luck-discovery/#comment-6120 Kathy Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:46:01 +0000 http://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2006/07/04/good-luck-discovery/#comment-6120 Ineresting how it is the little things that these specialists get wrong - back to the football - I mean, the little thing of numbers of strikers taken in the squad! Ineresting how it is the little things that these specialists get wrong - back to the football - I mean, the little thing of numbers of strikers taken in the squad!

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