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1 posted on 02/01/2003 4:30:48 PM PST by backhoe
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I just have to thank you for this.

You and fellow posters represent the best of FreeRepublic.com.

Blessings...

31 posted on 02/01/2003 7:02:44 PM PST by Airborne Longhorn
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Bookmarked. And as usual, you do the BEST job of this!
33 posted on 02/01/2003 7:31:14 PM PST by Howlin
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Thank you, backhoe. Here's another:

Israeli astronaut pride of a nation

34 posted on 02/01/2003 7:32:22 PM PST by ELS
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NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet While Probing Columbia Disaster
voanews.com ^ | 02 Feb 2003, 01:22 UTC | David McAlary
36 posted on 02/01/2003 8:23:09 PM PST by petuniasevan (RIP Columbia crew - you were the "Right Stuff")
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Heartbreaking Discoveries of Shuttle Explosion in Hemphill (TX)
38 posted on 02/01/2003 8:26:10 PM PST by petuniasevan (RIP Columbia crew - you were the "Right Stuff")
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Bush's day: Dealing with tragedy (A Recap of his day)

Yes it's on-topic

39 posted on 02/01/2003 9:39:05 PM PST by petuniasevan
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Seven New Stars Over Lone Star State
http://www.dallasnews.com/img/02-03/0202deore.jpg ^
44 posted on 02/02/2003 7:23:14 AM PST by petuniasevan (RIP Columbia crew - you were the "Right Stuff")
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Debris Photos (post them here)
45 posted on 02/02/2003 7:39:20 AM PST by petuniasevan (RIP Columbia crew - you were the "Right Stuff")
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Thanks for this and bump.
46 posted on 02/02/2003 8:30:42 AM PST by socal_parrot (God bless the Columbia crew and their families.)
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Kalpana Chawla's space dream did India proud
49 posted on 02/02/2003 11:59:03 AM PST by Gamecock (The friendship of the French is like their wine, exquisite, but of short duration.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/834560/posts
Columbia streaks toward Florida touchdown to end successful 16-day science mission (AP oops!)
Associated Press ^ | February 1, 2003 | Marcia Dunn
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/834673/posts
Did NASA know there was a problem? PIC and Excerpts from an Israeli Article
Maariv ^
 
 
 
 
Debris Over California
Vanity Posted on 02/03/2003 2:22 AM EST by sissyjane
 
 
 
 
Astronauts doomed from the start
.heraldsun ^ | 2/3/2003 | PHILLIP COOREY and ANNA COCK
 
 
 
 
Peeking at the shuttle from space
MSNBC.Com - NBC NEWS ^ | By Robert Windrem and Tierney O'Dea
 
Shuttle Crash Raises Questions Over Future of Manned Flights
The Wall Street Journal | February 3, 2003

53 posted on 02/03/2003 2:18:35 AM PST by backhoe
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Columbia Disaster Coverage: Resources, Story Ideas and More (Many useful links - FR MENTIONED!)
54 posted on 02/03/2003 12:43:53 PM PST by backhoe ("Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...")
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Columbia Was Beyond Any Help, Officials Say

55 posted on 02/04/2003 2:13:21 AM PST by backhoe
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The Air Force Image.
58 posted on 02/08/2003 6:45:16 AM PST by conservativecorner
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From Excitement to Horror: Columbia's Last Flight Online (New York Times)

59 posted on 02/09/2003 4:26:20 AM PST by backhoe
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NASA Has New Data On Shuttle
60 posted on 02/09/2003 8:34:55 AM PST by BraveMan
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Observation on TPS damage on Orbiter
    -- started by bonesmccoy has the best technical discussion and analysis with many FReeper experts.
62 posted on 02/09/2003 10:19:08 AM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)
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Thanks for the list. Could you please add:

Officials Eye Columbia's Last Overhaul

This story hasn't gotten much traction on FR, but I think it is important to realize that the leading edges of Columbia's wings were modified somehow at Palmdale two flights back. I am very interested in finding out 1. Why a modification was required, and 2. What exactly was done.

Among the modifications to NASA's oldest shuttle were increased protection from space debris and enhanced heat protection for the leading edges of the wings.

64 posted on 02/19/2003 3:24:44 AM PST by snopercod
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The Columbia Accident Investigation Board is meeting at 2 Eastern this afternoon. Scheduled to last for three hours and can be seen on NASA-TV, C-SPAN3 and caib.us
69 posted on 04/07/2003 10:56:03 AM PDT by leadpenny (OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM)
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The U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed during orbital re-rentry on 1 February 2003 ...

because foam (SOFI) from the External Tank (ET) severely damaged the ceramic thermal protection tiles on the orbiter Columbia ... during the launch phase ...

The nation wept and mourned the Columbia's loss ...

Congressional hearings were conducted ... to learn the "truth" about this tragedy could have been avoided ...



The "only" problem was back in 1988 ... an Aerospace Mechanical Engineer ... at the New Orleans Michoud Facility ... collected data from 30 External Tanks that had been built ...

and discovered and then ACCURATELY PREDICTED to Martin-Marietta Aerospace ... and NASA ...

that someday "weak" SOFI foam would fall from an External Tank during a Space Shuttle launch phase ...

DAMAGE the CERMAMIC TILES on the Orbiter's underside ...

resulting in the Orbiter's fiery DESTRUCTION upon re-rentry ...

just like the Space Shuttle Columbia would do 15 years later ...



Of course, some called that Aerospace Mechanical Engineer ... a "hater" ... "deluded" ... and his data analysis a "crock of shit" ...

and of course ... he was duly rewarded by NASA for his warnings by being FIRED in 1988 ...

Certainly that engineer was a man of knowledge, and at least for that moment, exhibiting a glimmer of "courage" ... in the face of professional and career disaster ...




I am he ... Free Republic's "Patton@Baston"

And I stand tonight ... (written in October 2012) unapologetic at my dire warnings about "Myth" Romney ...

knowing ... thjat just as with my accurate warnings about a destroyed Space Shuttle Orbiter ...

I am also quite "correct" in my warings about ...

Myth Romney ("Celestial God-Child from Planet Kolob") ...



In conclusion ... what ultimately destroyed the space shuttle Columbia ?

NASA and Lockheed-Martin Corporate career-climbing "Management Drones" worshiping at the altar of Man-Made Global Warming and other such unscientific nonsense.

These fools forced the substitution of the "original" SOFI material with a "green" alternative on the space shuttle engineers.

The only question is "how many" decent Engineers were blackmailed or forced to falsify data on how the "Green SOFI" wasn't worth a damn.




And what may ultimately destroy the United States Constitutional Republic ?

The "Wanna-Be-Dictator-for-Life" Obama ... and those Republican Party RINOs who prefer invitations to Washington's "best" parties to keep their beautiful wives and mistresses happily entertained ...

while those same Republican RINO sellouts give free-reign to Obama's Godless-Socialist thugs as they burn our beloved Constitution in a back-lot garbage dumpster ...



Patton-at-Bastogne

CEAI@Engineering-Excellence.US


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70 posted on 02/01/2013 5:12:53 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Piss upon Obama, and his False Prophet Mohammed)
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