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Shuttle Doomed at Takeoff - Telltale Heat Spike Was Recorded After Debris Strike
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| April 18, 2003
| Lisa Stark and Gina Treadgold
Posted on 04/19/2003 5:02:48 AM PDT by jpthomas
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This heat spike during ascent in close temporal and spatial proximity to the insulation strike is the smoking gun that confirms that the foam impact caused the fatal breach in the shuttle's thermal protection system.
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04/19/2003 5:02:48 AM PDT
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jpthomas
To: jpthomas
I love all the so-called NASA experts originally saying the insulation was absolutely NOT the cause.
The foam was another Clinton evil: the properly working, correct original foam insulation was not "environmentally friendly" enough and was ordered replaced by that disgusting corrupt Clinton EPA director.
Gee, I wonder if the Old Media is going to follow up on this story?
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posted on
04/19/2003 5:13:21 AM PDT
by
friendly
To: jpthomas
If they suspected the damage, could they have done something? Probably not," a source said. "But you never want to say there was nothing that could have been done, because you never know what 1,000 people all working on one problem might come up with."Yeah, heaven forfend they might be honest with the astronauts about what they might face coming home...
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04/19/2003 5:15:05 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: jpthomas
From Newsmax.com
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2003
Clinton Environmental Policy Sabotaged the Shuttle
Thank fussy "environmentalists" from the Clinton administration for the substandard but politically correct foam that NASA thinks caused the Columbia disaster.
"NASA engineers have known for at least five years that insulating foam could peel off the space shuttle's external fuel tanks and damage the vital heat-protecting tiles that the space agency says were the likely 'root cause' of Saturday's shuttle disaster," the left-of-center Philadelphia Inquirer noted today in an article by Knight Ridder News Service.
So why was such a crummy substance used in such a crucial capacity, with the lives of seven astronauts at stake? Because "environmentalists" fretting about their theory of human-caused "global warming" wanted to use it.
In a 1997 report, NASA mechanical systems engineer Greg Katnik "noted that the 1997 mission, STS-87, was the first to use a new method of 'foaming' the tanks, one designed to address NASA's goal of using environmentally friendly products. The shift came as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was ordering many industries to phase out the use of Freon, an aerosol propellant linked to ozone depletion and global warming," Knight Ridder reported.
Insulation is sprayed on the shuttle's tanks to keep the super-cooled hydrogen and oxygen fuels at the correct temperature.
(Excerpt) See: http://www.newsmax.com/archive/print.shtml?a=2003/2/4/174925
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posted on
04/19/2003 5:18:43 AM PDT
by
friendly
To: friendly
Who would have guessed that the last seven Clinton murders would have been so spectacular?
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posted on
04/19/2003 5:29:27 AM PDT
by
The Duke
To: mewzilla
Aactually NASA has officially contradicted the "nothing could be done" line already: They claimed to be able to rush another shuttle to launch.
Another real possibility was the Soyuz that was ready to go to the ISS.
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04/19/2003 5:29:47 AM PDT
by
eno_
To: eno_
But notice that the But nothing could be done line is still trotted out by NASA (the unnamed source) whenever more stuff hits the fan.
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04/19/2003 5:33:06 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: friendly
Thank fussy "environmentalists" from the Clinton administration for the substandard but politically correct foam that NASA thinks caused the Columbia disaster. "NASA engineers have known for at least five years that insulating foam could peel off the space shuttle's external fuel tanks and damage the vital heat-protecting tiles that the space agency says were the likely 'root cause' of Saturday's shuttle disaster," the left-of-center Philadelphia Inquirer noted today in an article by Knight Ridder News Service.
So why was such a crummy substance used in such a crucial capacity, with the lives of seven astronauts at stake? Because "environmentalists" fretting about their theory of human-caused "global warming" wanted to use it.
clinton Legacy Bump!
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posted on
04/19/2003 5:40:24 AM PDT
by
F-117A
To: F-117A; brityank; bonesmccoy; XBob
fyi
To: friendly
Old Media How about "Dead End Media" to borrow a Rummy GWII image concerning doomed regime adherents?
HF
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posted on
04/19/2003 6:03:02 AM PDT
by
holden
To: friendly
The foam was another Clinton evil: the properly working, correct original foam insulation was not "environmentally friendly" enough and was ordered replaced by that disgusting corrupt Clinton EPA director. Does anybody know the difference in performance of the two different types of foam?
Also, I remember one report from the Challenger disaster that said the O-ring burn-through started to appear after the EPA made NASA discontinue using an insulating putty that contained asbestos. The O-rings sit in the middle of a putty-filled recess. They started having problems with some of the rings scorched, or partially-burned, when they switched putties. Add the combination of cold weather, making the O-rings stiffer and weaker, and disaster finally happened.
But better to lose tens of billions of dollars, 14 lives, and much of the future of the manned space program, than question the sacred EPA.
To: 300winmag
It is clear that environmentalists have killed many more Americans that all of the nuclear power plants and all of the DDT in the country combined.
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04/19/2003 6:17:33 AM PDT
by
Tom D.
To: jpthomas
This heat spike during ascent in close temporal and spatial proximity to the insulation strike is the smoking gun that confirms that the foam impact caused the fatal breach in the shuttle's thermal protection system. The only hope would have been to abort the flight right then.
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04/19/2003 6:47:58 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help support terrorism.)
To: The Duke
Who would have guessed that the last seven Clinton murders would have been so spectacular? You nailed it Duke. Legacy murders, along with the 3000+ Bill and Hillary murdered at the WTC attack.
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posted on
04/19/2003 6:56:12 AM PDT
by
friendly
To: bribriagain
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posted on
04/19/2003 7:21:59 AM PDT
by
bonesmccoy
(Defeat the terrorists... Vaccinate!)
To: leadpenny
Ping!
To: friendly
I love all the so-called NASA experts originally saying the insulation was absolutely NOT the cause. No one in NASA ever said such a thing. Prove your assertion by providing a direct quote.
And by the way, it was NASA who found data about the temperature spike. So your conspiracy theories are just plain nutty.
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04/19/2003 8:15:21 AM PDT
by
jlogajan
To: jlogajan
Sigh, don't you read anything, or follow the news? I resent having to waste my time on a Google search to enlighten the uninformed, but here is item number one of a vast number of Google references:
NASA: Foam still under consideration as cause of disaster
By The Associated Press
Friday, February 7, 2003
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) A day after all but ruling it out as a leading cause, NASA said Thursday that investigators are still considering whether a piece of insulating foam that struck Columbia's wing during liftoff was enough to bring down the shuttle.
(excerpt)
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04/19/2003 9:15:10 AM PDT
by
friendly
To: friendly
Ha ha. That's not a quote of any NASA individual, that is a quote of an AP copy writer. That's like showing a copy of an AP newswire on the "quagmire" in Iraq.
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04/19/2003 10:59:33 AM PDT
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jlogajan
To: Springman
Thanks for the ping. Do you think the Columbia investigation will take longer than the Challenger investigation?
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04/20/2003 3:43:08 AM PDT
by
leadpenny
(OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM)
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