Shuttle Contact LOST-No Tracking Data During RE-Entry!

Nasa TV | 02/01/03 | GRRRR

[Leto]

The Shuttle appears to have suffered this disaster at 200,000 feet. If a missle were laundhed at a Shuttle it would have been 'seen' on radar...and the types of missles available to terrorist can't go to those altitudes.

Prayers for the crew and thier families.

[MissEdie]

I was, but had to turn the channel because of this weekend crew. Where's E.D. Hill when you need her?

[mewzilla]

If we've got illegal aliens doing work on a naval warship, we'd better not get cocky and say that there's no chance someone couldn't have gotten to the shuttle.

[TheDivineRightOfLifesScum]

I just heard about what happened, I extend my heartfelt sympathies to the crew, their families and friends, and their workmates at NASA and elsewhere.

[DubbleD]

CBS radio news is reporting that a piece of debris has fallen through the roof of an apartment building in Plano, TX, causing afire.

[AppyPappy]

You may hear multiple sonic booms from the various pieces of debris

[Republic of Texas]

I live in Dallas, and have never heard a sonic boom from the shuttle before. Doesn't mean there wasn't one. Certainly never heard one like this morning.

[Petronski]

MSNBC reporting 'a debris field in the air between Athens and Rust.' Airborne debris?

[Redleg Duke]

In the midst of this tragic day, may I offer this.

The American Space Program, in the 40 years it has existed, has lost 17 astronauts in spaceflight-related activities. Three in Apolo 1 on the pad, 7 on Challenger and now apparently 7 on Columbia.

How many pioneers were lost exploring and settling North America?

Space, the Final Frontier, is a harsh environment. Exploring and conquering it will be dangerous. Few have been lost, but many, many more will be if we, the Human Race, is to continue to reach and achieve.

We must pause, reflect and honor these latest "Pioneers" who have paid the ultimate price, but in their honor, we must pick up where they left off and continue Mankind's Journey!

My Two-Cents worth.

[sobieski]

I just saw the WFAA footage; it didn't look like the shuttle was moving at 12,500 miles/hr or that it was at 200,000 feet. Yet the FBI already discounting terrorism?

[exhaustedmomma]

Thanks DoughtyOne. My husband was just explaining something like that to me. I was worrying a scud or something--- he was saying it couldn't reach that high. AND he said they wouldn't use a scud anyway... I obviously know next to nothing about this stuff!

[Petronski]

MSNBC reporting 'a debris field in the air between Athens and Rusk.' Airborne debris?

[ladysusan]

Juat got off the phone with my daughter whose in laws live in Palestine Texas. FIL reports a large grass fire in the area. Daughter reports hearing loud sounds, like a lot of large people running around in the attic as the shuttle passed over.

[aristeides]

Reporter on CBS Radio just reported seeing smoking debris off Highway 45 near Corsicana, TX.

Press conference at 11:30.

Police spokesperson just reported finding all sorts of debris all over East Texas, including arm and hand.

[Republic of Texas]

I live in Plano, and heard MANY firetrucks between 8am and 9 am.

[dep]

i was just interviewed by VOA -- i've done a bunch of writing on the shuttle over the years (got a pulitzer nomination for this in the miami herald) -- and was told that they're celebrating bigtime on al jezeera. made me want to vomit, but that was a feeling i first got when the clueless fox and friends crowd said the shuttle was "a minute overdue," lacking even the wits to realize that the shuttle does not circle the patch awaiting clearance.

anyway, they're having a happy time over in the land of the religion of peace.

dep

[George W. Bush]

The shuttle is the best monitored space vehicle we have ever produced and no doubt the cause of the break up will be eventually revealed.

No. It was an underfunded compromise in a time of short funding which shruck as the project approached completion. Our astronauts deserve better. Our country deserves better. It's even far more expensive to fly than the multistage rockets it replaced.

We need a new shuttle. We need new heavy-payload rockets. Not an all-in-one space truck with many inherent design flaws based on Seventies technology. This is what we need to do if we want a successful and affordable space program.

[bandleader]

I don't know what I'm talking about but from what I've heard this morning,(Lovell,Aldrin et al.)it would appear that the computers that control the angle at which the shuttle makes contact with the atmosphere for re-entry failed!It's hard to imagine this happening because there is most certainly a built-in redundancy!!

[LouD]

Yesterday, I was substitute teaching at Horlick High School in Racine, which was Mission Specialist Laurel Clark's alma mater.

They had a whole wall dedicated to pictures and stories of the shuttle mission. They were very proud of her. It will be a sad day there on Monday.

[FreeAtlanta]

How the heck could the WH rule that out so fast? I mean, I saw a story llast week about illegal aliens working on a naval warship. Even if the WH knows what happened to the shuttle, they can't say why yet. Can they? -

I said something similiar to my wife. As many Muslims are are in our nation working in Universities, Government projects and even at NASA, how hard would it be for one to slice a hydrolic line?

BTW, did the perp who cut those US Marine's parachutes last year, ever get caught? Sadly, many Muslims, even with US citizenship, see themselves as Islamic way before being America.

I feel this was probably an accident, but sabatoge can't be ruled out so quickly. JMO