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AP: Shuttle repair successful - Unprecedented shuttle repair a success
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| 8/3/05
| Pam Easton - AP
Posted on 08/03/2005 9:15:20 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
...but isn't needed for landing... And the odds of them being [hopefully] right?
To: curtisgardner
what is the point of our space program?To help build a space station from which humanitarian aid can be dispensed to illegal space-Mexicans ;-)
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posted on
08/03/2005 1:25:16 PM PDT
by
varon
(Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
To: bruin66
The back-up annunciator is also out, and this means the Space Shuttle will not be allowed back on the construction site until it is repaired. The annunciator is a custom design by a now-defunct company, which means the entire spaceship will have to be redesigned and the entire crew retrained. The delay could be years.
< /Vonnegut >
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posted on
08/03/2005 1:50:21 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
To: NormsRevenge
They were careful to make sure Robinson's helmet and feet did not contact the fragile ship. This implies a pretty fragile system. If a bump from a helmet could damage it, what about frozen particles from a waste dump of a previous shuttle flight? It is amazing that the shuttle has never been hit with space debris. Based upon this article, it would lead one to think it could destroy the shuttle.
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posted on
08/03/2005 1:57:52 PM PDT
by
IamConservative
(The true character of a man is revealed in what he does when no one is looking.)
To: Mark Felton
Very good analysis on those posts!
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posted on
08/03/2005 1:59:29 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(We are taxed twice as much by our idleness. -- Benjamin Franklin)
To: IamConservative
Fortunately space is pretty much a vacuum. That's why it is called space, there is little else there to identify it as something.
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posted on
08/03/2005 2:05:52 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
To: King Prout
to not stagnate we must grow That is the nature of organizations. That is what civilization is--an organization. It is growing like one of those slaves they used to put into a jar when they were babies so when they got bigger they would be jar shaped. Like birds, too, they are aerodynamic because they spend their formative days inside an egg and take on that shape. Eventually they want to spread their wings and that means breaking out of the shell. I don't know if jar-slaves can fly. :)
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posted on
08/03/2005 2:10:27 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
08/03/2005 2:23:45 PM PDT
by
King Prout
(and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
To: King Prout
Civilization is organic, not stochastic.
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posted on
08/03/2005 3:37:46 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
08/03/2005 8:03:59 PM PDT
by
King Prout
(and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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