Ed Cannon wrote in response to Daniel Deak's question as to whether or not the cloud-like tail he observed emanating from the shuttle could have been a waste water dump: > Apparently so! The following is from a news story on Yahoo/Reuters: > > ] Mission managers also decided they could save fuel by > simply flushing > ] waste water into space several times a day rather than > vaporizing it. That explains why I could not find a scheduled waste water dump in the mission timeline for the time observed by Dan Deak: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-99/timeline/fd05detail.pdf The additional water dumps, including the one observed by Dan, must have been added after the timeline was posted. It appears that an updated detailed schedule is posted to the above site each day, so perhaps those for the remainder of the flight will provide the schedule for each dump. Ted Molczan ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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