Also couldn’t help but notice it’s going to take about 52 hours and 36 minutes after undocking with the ISS until it lands. The official NASA undocking time was 7:56 AM EDT today Sunday and official first landing time is 12:32 PM EDT on Tuesday.

Now I am sure NASA has a very good excuse for this delay. I am sure that there is a lot of preparation and checklists to do but 52 hours worth?

Like I say, I am sure that NASA has a very good excuse for this delay but I am too lazy to call the public information officer so I’ll cut to my conspiracy if you don’t mind.

I believe that the Shuttle goes directly to the Secret Space Station (that John Lenard had pictures of) directly after launch from Kennedy. At the Secret Space Station, some cargo is off loaded and it is possible that other cargo is on loaded to go to the ISS.

When the shuttle gets to the ISS the remaining cargo is off loaded and the busy work is performed at the ISS.

Then the shuttle leaves the ISS and heads back to the Secret Space Station before landing at Kennedy either to off load cargo picked up at the ISS and/or on load cargo for earth.

A lot of this cargo will make more sense in future posts when Zorgon and I get back from the Bay Area UFO Expo. You will not believe what we found.

Originally posted by zorgon

Originally posted by ArMaP
That PDF may have come from a Brazilian source, but is in Spanish (or, more correctly, Castilian), so I doubt it.

Also, none of the PDFs is in Russian, can we have the original text to dismiss the possibility of a bad translation?

Most of the Russian sites use English these days but knock yourself out...

www.energia.ru...



But ArMap... seriously must you always doubt everything? Is it too much to ask you take a little on faith that we did our homework? I mean we wouldn't tell you about fruits and vegetables if we didn't KNOW, now would we?

I mean what do you expect... an admission from NASA?

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in Space

05.13.04

Fresh fruits and vegetables have been in demand with astronauts since the early Shuttle days. Fresh fruits and vegetables (apples, bananas and carrot and celery sticks) were first flown on STS-6 in April 1983. Oranges, pears, nectarines, grapefruit and jalapeno peppers have also flown occasionally.

Bananas and oranges became less popular over time because of the odor they produce. The fresh fruits and vegetables are loaded on the spacecraft 16 to 24 hours before launch. The odor permeates the spacecraft. Upon arrival in microgravity, some crew members may become nauseated and then associate the odor of the fruits and vegetables with the nausea.

The Russians send onions, garlic and tomatoes with each Progress shipment to the International Space Station (ISS). ISS crew members report that the fresh fruits and vegetables from Shuttle and Progress add variety to their diet and increase crew morale.

Cultural differences between the two food systems include the lack of any typical American breakfast foods. There is also more fish on the Russian menu. Some of their breakfast items include perch, both pickled and spiced, and foxberry juice, a mixture of wild cranberry and buckwheat gruel. Several thermostabilized and dehydrated cottage cheese items appear in the menu, mostly with fruit. And, of course, we cannot have Russian food without borsch, a soup made of beets.

So you still doubt? I knew if we looked hard enough we would find the itemized list

Currently, the Russian Space Agency provides half of the food consumed on the ISS, with NASA supplying the other half.

And there you have it the Russian Caterers...

Now explain to me if the Progress brought 2.5 tons of food to the ISS and 241 kilograms of that was fresh produce... and that is only HALF of the food brought up there...

Just HOW MUCH CAN THREE PEOPLE EAT???

Oh almost forgot how silly of me... you want the source of this data...

NASA Home > For Students > 9-12 Students


So YOU doubt the fruits and veggies..

but school kids 9-12 know it for a fact...

OOPS!! Seems that WAS an admission from NASA, and very well detailed I might add.

Maybe their goal is to brainwash the next generation, because they know the rest are a lost cause




[edit on 3-9-2007 by zorgon]

Space Shuttle Buran launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 15, 1988. It promised a new age in Soviet space flight. Outwardly, Buran resembled the American space shuttle but there were several important differences. The most apparent was the monstrous Energia heavy-lift rocket system, capable launching the shuttle with up to 100 tonnes of cargo -- three times the capacity of the American model.

The Energia rocket was capable of full oribital insertion, allowing Russian designers to do away with the bulky engines required by the American design -- the Soviet shuttle's thrusters were required only for manuevering. In addition, the Buran-Energia system was designed to be fully reusable. The shuttle, rocket and liquid-propellant Zenit boosters could be reconditioned and reused.