An Interesting Perspective

Schedule Slipped Again

Although we failed to meet our launch schedule for Odyssey, many positive things happed during the year that will enable our program to move forward at a rapid clip, once our first Student Shuttle is launched. Our materials suppliers are firmly established and we have a plus or minus 10% building cost established. As our organization acquires more depth and a wider reach, we anticipate RSS feeds to selected participants.

Odyssey Launch Rescheduled

Due to the events surrounding the Northrop Grumman-EADS contract awarded by the Air Force, our Brookley assembly location has been moved to our North Alabama location on a five acre assembly site. This will provide much better coordination with our suppliers of components in Carrolton, Georgia and Gadsden, Alabama. We have rescheduled the activities at this site to begin in May of 2008.

STS-1 and SES-1

Our target date for completion of SES-1 is April 12, 2008...27 years after the launch of America's first Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1..

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/index.html

First Step

As a first step to viewing our first Student Cargo Bay Module progress, you may want to download this program from GOOGLE that will enable you to view the 3-D Models that we will be using during construction.

http://www.sketchup.com/index.php?id=76&submit2=Complete+form+and+Download

If you have downloaded the Google Sketchup 3-D Program above, send us an e-mail at
shuttlehall@peoplepc.com, and we will e-mail you the files for the 3-D Models that we will be using in the design/build exercise. You can take a virtual tour of the model and save it for future reference.

SES-1, Module 1

Construction of the first Student Shuttle Cargo Bay Module #1 will begin in early Spring in Mobile, Alabama. Please check back to this link to follow its progress in photo and narrative format.

Please watch the video below this message to better understand the mission.