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Final Radio Transmission From Space Shuttle
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| 2-1-03
| Joe Hadenuf
Posted on 02/01/2003 11:52:21 AM PST by Joe Hadenuf
Final radio transmission between Columbia and Mission Control:
Mission Control: 'Columbia, Houston we see your tire pressure messages and we did not copy your last.'
Columbia: 'Roger, uh, ...' (transmission breaks off after the crew member starts to stay a word beginning with the sound 'buh.')
Burn through??
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: columbiadata; columbiatragedy; feb12003; nasa; spaceshuttle; sts107
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To: Joe Hadenuf
No offence meant, but this is morbid.
To: EggsAckley
I don't understand your statement?
To: Joe Hadenuf
I'm thinking (I'm certainly no expect although I witnessed the event here in N. Texas) that probably the sensors in the tires may have been the first detection method that something was wrong in the belly... pure speculation on my part of course...
To: Joe Hadenuf
I heard that tape Joe.....I couldn't make out anything after Roger,uh.....sounds of static and breakup after that..
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posted on
02/01/2003 11:56:18 AM PST
by
Dog
To: Joe Hadenuf
Can't really explain it. Maybe it's the fact that everyone will be trying to "fill in the blanks" and speculate on what was said. Just being overly sensitive, I guess.
To: Dog
Yep... as bad as I dislike MSNBC, they do have a link to the audio clip on their main news page right now if anyone wants to go listen to it...
To: TexasGunLover
That's probably pretty good speculation.......
To: Joe Hadenuf
"...and we did not copy your last. The reference to the "last" transmission leads to a desire to hear the last minute or so of communication not simply where it breaks apart...
Can you go further back for us?
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posted on
02/01/2003 11:59:15 AM PST
by
ez2muz
To: Joe Hadenuf
To: Joe Hadenuf
The tire pressure sensors on the shuttle consist of several strain gages on the tire rims. The shuttle computers convert "strain" to "pressure" via some algorithm.
The wires from the strain gages go up to the struts through a breakaway cable.
The last thing that is done before closing the wheel-well doors in the VAB is to take resistance readings of the strain gages and make sure they are correct. (There is no way to get a readout in the cockpit because there is no power on shuttle at the time.)
To: Joe Hadenuf
Like hitting a bridge abutment. At that speed, even the light air would act like a solid. It was over quick.
To: RightWhale
NASA "technical" press conference coming up now.
To: RightWhale
Oh I agree, like one poster stated, it would be like getting hit by an invisible wrecking ball........
To: snopercod
Oops! Make that one hour from now. 3PM CST
To: snopercod
FOX??
To: snopercod
tire pressure sensors Are you sure the tires are filled with air? I would think they'd be solid or semi-solid, else the compartments would have to stay highly pressurized during the flight. In the vaccum of space, air filled tires could blow apart.
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posted on
02/01/2003 12:03:45 PM PST
by
Reeses
To: Joe Hadenuf
Bump
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posted on
02/01/2003 12:03:48 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: snopercod
CNN and FOX still both state NASA breifing coming any moment.
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posted on
02/01/2003 12:04:13 PM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
To: snopercod
Make that one hour from now. 3PM CST Radio news just said it is now.
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