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Trouble coming home?

Atlantis has done it's job delivering some solar sails to the ISS, and all has gone reasonably well for this mission (barring a brief glitch in the station's oxygen supplier that created a tiny toxic spill).

The craft was due to land back on Earth tomorrow - but the weather in Florida doesn't look so good, and now there's a 'mystery object' between the shuttle and the ground that has put off a landing attempt for at least a day.

That term and the description (a baffling object of indeterminate size in the same orbit as the shuttle) makes it sound like a UFO... sadly it's probably just a bit of kit that fell out of the cargo bay.

Posted by Nicola Jones on September 19, 2006 05:44 PM |

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There are reports that the mystery object looks a bit like a picture-hanging hook, or a garbage bag... it looks like a bit of chewing gum to me but then the scale is hard to judge. There's a great picture here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060920/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle. And a fantastic story about space junk, generally, here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/09/14/space.junk.ap/index.html

Posted by: nicola jones | September 20, 2006 10:34 AM

hey wuz up haha man I'm wtiting to me self this is so darn dumb

Posted by: ashley bitternose | January 11, 2007 04:53 PM

Hi, this is Peter Teiman writing from Sweden.It is sad to see how the projected international space station is years away from a viable large-scale deployment.

Posted by: Peter Teiman | August 29, 2007 03:03 AM

DR PETER TEIMAN FRANKLIN here,
With all the money spent on the solar sails, one wonders if it is of any value.
DR PETER TEIMAN FRANKLIN
Sweden

Posted by: DR PETER TEIMAN FRANKLIN | October 9, 2007 03:26 AM

PETER TEIMAN FRANKLIN ASSOCIATES here,
does anyone have any references re books/articles on the creative processes in the development of scientific ideas?
PETER TEIMAN FRANKLIN ASSOCIATES

Posted by: DR PETER TEIMAN FRANKLIN | December 10, 2007 02:56 AM

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