Skip to comments.
Space Shuttle's Left Wing May Be Damaged
nbc4.com ^
| 20070612
| NBC News space correspondent Jay Barbree
Posted on 06/12/2007 4:48:53 PM PDT by XBob
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 421 next last
To: XBob
I’m 31 years old. For those older than me...how in the HELL do you sit still through a shuttle launch and landing? After what happened with the Challenger and Columbia, I’m on f**king pins and needles every time a shuttle goes up and when it comes in for landing.
41
posted on
06/12/2007 5:12:42 PM PDT
by
Severa
(I can't take this stress anymore...quick, get me a marker to sniff....)
To: don-o
The biggest reason I panic is that things like this make most people conclude that space isn’t worth it. Of course, they conclude this while using GPS navigation listening to satellite radio and talking to their friends in Europe.
China and Russia think space is worth it, and that’s hood enough for me.
42
posted on
06/12/2007 5:13:43 PM PDT
by
oldleft
To: HEY4QDEMS
As long as people volunteer, we should keep sending them.
By the way, sign me up.
43
posted on
06/12/2007 5:13:48 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 92 days away from outliving Marvin Gaye)
To: Ikemeister
Time to shelve the design and start over.
Heard of the Constellation Programme?
44
posted on
06/12/2007 5:14:13 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: advertising guy
The problem is the technology. The idea that they use friction to slow down. They need to find a way to enter the atmosphere at less than 3094562390486 miles per hour. A different propulsion method that doesn't require 93457932475 gallons of fuel in a tank the size of a skyscraper.
45
posted on
06/12/2007 5:14:31 PM PDT
by
kjam22
(see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
To: Severa
shoulda been watching in the earliest days when a capsule dropped and a parachute landed you.....that was hairy
46
posted on
06/12/2007 5:14:53 PM PDT
by
advertising guy
(If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
To: P-40
And as Christopher Columbus proved, it's a total waste of time.We have unmanned probes (Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager and Voyager 2) that have traveled beyond the reaches of the solar system. Yet astronauts continue to tool around in low earth orbit. Please let me what "exploring" these guys are doing while they're putting their lives at risk in low earth orbit. As I see it, it's considerable risk at enormous expense for zero gain.
47
posted on
06/12/2007 5:15:25 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: XBob
Nothing to see here move along folks...non-event!!!
Minor scratch is all....
To: SamAdams76
By the way, sign me up.
Ditto.
49
posted on
06/12/2007 5:15:44 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: P-40
Why, are we planning to colonize the moon? Mars?
We can send lots of exploring drones up there without the risk to human life.
50
posted on
06/12/2007 5:15:58 PM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: oldleft
floridatoday.com NASA is investigating what engineers believe is a false sensor reading that indicated thermal armor on one of the wings of shuttle Atlantis might have been struck by a micrometeorite in orbit.
But John Shannon, chairman of NASA's Mission Management Team, said engineers are discounting the possibility that there was an actual hit because other sensors in the same area didn't register an impact.
"I think characterizing this as an impact hit would be premature at this point," Shannon said in a briefing tonight.
51
posted on
06/12/2007 5:16:27 PM PDT
by
don-o
(“I don`t expect politicians to solve anyone's problems.The world owes us nothing” Bob Dylan)
To: oldleft
” let the shuttle try to get back on remote.”
The shuttle was explicitly designed not to have remote capability.
Buran, the Russian shuttle, did, but in our design, there are manual levers that must be flipped and several decisions made by a live human in the cockpit. We never redesigned the shuttle so that it could do an unmanned supply run, for instance, saving weight and fuel.
I don’t know what would happen if you flipped the levers, set the switches, and exited as you made the final “land” settings, but I don’t think it would work.
I think that at least one person would have to be on board to land it.
52
posted on
06/12/2007 5:16:31 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Army Air Corps
You dont colonise and exploit resources with probes.Why not?
53
posted on
06/12/2007 5:16:42 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Jet Jaguar
7. “Hope they can fix it. They can.”
SO SORRY, IIRC panels 7 and 8 cannot be fixed, period, anwhere, they must be replaced, IRRC.
We posted that info here on FR on our looooong thread on the Colombia disaster in FEB 2003.
NASA Kennedy Space CenterSpace Shuttle Orbiter Systems .... Instruct students to label and shade in the Shuttle tile positions. ...
http://media.nasaexplores.com/lessons/04-030/9-12_1.pdf
54
posted on
06/12/2007 5:17:04 PM PDT
by
XBob
(Jail the employers of the INVADERS !!)
To: HEY4QDEMS
We need to stop putting people up there
in 40 year old equipment. Its expensive, worthless and most of all, dangerous.
There. Fixed it...
55
posted on
06/12/2007 5:17:22 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find its seeds were watered with American blood)
To: don-o
"I think characterizing this as an impact hit would be premature at this point," Shannon said in a briefing tonight. That means it's got a hole in the wing....
56
posted on
06/12/2007 5:17:29 PM PDT
by
kjam22
(see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
To: HEY4QDEMS
Probes are great for exploration, asuming that ALL you want to do is explore. Humanity needs room and needs to spread its seed to survive. Probes do bupkis for that.
57
posted on
06/12/2007 5:18:25 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Ikemeister
The Shuttle is being shelved in 2010. The Crew Exploration Vehicle (or CEV) has been designed, approved, budgeted and ground service facilities are being readied.
To: Dog
Hey Jim! Kev here. I watched the launch and followed the live thread on FR. I just happen to log on at the right time. Didn't see anything in the local rag on the launch. I was watching on NASA TV on the internet. It was a great shot, the camera they had.
But as they were going up into orbit at enormous speeds, I thought to myself, there is allot of space junk up there. How the heck do the miss it all? I mean, look at the planes that suck a duck into the engine. The chances of that are probably small here with gravity and all, but this junk is floating around all over up there.
I hope and pray this turns out ok. Wonder how long they can stay on the space station?
59
posted on
06/12/2007 5:19:38 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
To: dinoparty
The difference is ... they were looking for something worthwhile...They never did find the short route to China, though...
60
posted on
06/12/2007 5:19:41 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find its seeds were watered with American blood)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 421 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson