Posted on 02/10/2018 8:49:17 AM PST by Voption
7. Then just as they throttled back up to 104% power, the highest upper air wind shear ever recorded buffeted the Shuttle and rocked the entire stack.
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I didn’t know that and I thought I knew everything.
There’s a parallel with the Columbia disaster. It was the heaviest Shuttle to ever reenter the atmosphere. The atmosphere was also cold and dense. Otherwise, maybe it could have made it.
That’s a pretty ignorant statement considering those “contracts” were vested pretty much entirely on Russian engines until leveraged public risk permitted Musk to finance lofting his ego into orbit...
That’s a pretty ignorant statement considering those “contracts” were vested pretty much entirely on Russian engines until leveraged public risk permitted Musk to finance lofting his ego into orbit...
You want to try this in English?
That explains everything...
The burn to Mars was not a failure because it was never a burn to Mars. It was a burn to depletion that Musk realized would put it out as far as Mars. Going even farther was a bonus.
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