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re: The Columbia space shuttle disaster
Posted on 5/11/17 at 11:45 pm to Revelator
Posted on 5/11/17 at 11:45 pm to Revelator
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The Columbia space shuttle disaster quote: Left in the dark. There was nothing that could be done. It was just hoping and praying that the foam chunk didn't do too much harm. I was thinking that if perhaps they knew in advance, they could have possibly written letters to their love ones and sealed it some way in hopes of preserving them?
Most folks that conduct high risk operations such as special ops or space flight......write letters before missions and pit them in their lockers.........if mr Murphy rules the day or night....someone knows about the letters
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Posted on 5/11/17 at 11:48 pm to Revelator
Part of President Reagan's speech after the Challenger disaster.
This post was edited on 5/11/17 at 11:57 pm
Posted on 5/11/17 at 11:55 pm to Revelator
There's a lot of amateur videos on youtube of the Columbia reentry and videos even out over California and Arizona the people filming were mentioning how different the streak of light looked compared to previous reentries.
It's a shame how NASA changed the reentry path after Columbia. Before Columbia the shuttle would fly right over Baton Rouge and we'd get a great view of the low shuttle zooming across the sky and that big sonic boom.
It's a shame how NASA changed the reentry path after Columbia. Before Columbia the shuttle would fly right over Baton Rouge and we'd get a great view of the low shuttle zooming across the sky and that big sonic boom.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 11:59 pm to The Boat
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It's a shame how NASA changed the reentry path after Columbia. Before Columbia the shuttle would fly right over Baton Rouge and we'd get a great view of the low shuttle zooming across the sky and that big sonic boom.
I remember they brought one of the space shuttles to the Worlds Fair in New Orleans, and one day, I just so happened to be traveling to my parents house in Lafourche parish and I saw the shuttle being taken back riding piggyback on top of an airliner.
This post was edited on 5/12/17 at 12:01 am
Posted on 5/12/17 at 12:00 am to Revelator
They weren't really sure any damage had taken place at launch.
Even during the post crash testing it took several tries before they found the right combination of foam size and impact speed in mock up tests that showed the wing damage that had actually taken place.
Columbia was a freak incident.
Challenger was an engineering/managment failure. They knew about the O-ring problems and it was brushed off to keep the project going. That was no surprise to the engineers involved in the project.
Even during the post crash testing it took several tries before they found the right combination of foam size and impact speed in mock up tests that showed the wing damage that had actually taken place.
Columbia was a freak incident.
Challenger was an engineering/managment failure. They knew about the O-ring problems and it was brushed off to keep the project going. That was no surprise to the engineers involved in the project.
Posted on 5/12/17 at 12:03 am to AndyCBR
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Columbia was a freak incident.
Only in regards that NASA thought the foam couldn't do any real damage, but not freak in its occurrence since it had happened in previous flights.
This post was edited on 5/12/17 at 12:12 am
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