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NASA Acknowledges Space Shuttle Risks
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| 4/5/05
| Marcia Dunn - AP
Posted on 04/05/2005 6:16:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: JOE6PAK
One of my toys when I was a little kid was an old 20 guage shotgun that the firing mechanism removed. When I say little I mean 6 years old or so.
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posted on
04/05/2005 6:47:53 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I'm apathetic but really don't care.)
To: cripplecreek
(1) This is hardly spaceflight. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo -- those were space flights. This is non-science, low-earth-orbit unusefulness, deadly and absolutely wasteful.
(2) The risk involves every civilian, mother and child, man and boy under the flight path. We were incredibly fortunate that the last Shuttle crash did not end a single innocent live on the ground -- parts fell in inhabited areas!
(3) This is a jobs program that quells more space-related endeavor than it enables. Better to put that sinecured ossified bureaucracy to work scanning luggage. Combine the Shuttle program with the baggage shuttles.
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posted on
04/05/2005 6:55:37 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: ChefKeith
What NASA needs to do is send some of these "engineers" up on a flight. Then they will get off their collective a$$es and fix the problems on the Shuttle and tanks when THEY are in True DangerMy experience has been, the engineers want to fix everything, but the managers think it costs too much.
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posted on
04/05/2005 6:58:47 PM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: cripplecreek
There will never be spaceflight if we can't accept the risks. "we" were accepting the risks previously (AND using a different, more durable, kind of foam - environmentally-unfriendly though it was) and there were HOW many successful landings?
Since the wings don't matter on launch (with the rockets essentially 'shoving' it into orbit) how about some kind of sheathing to, if not totally protect the surfaces) at least mitigate gouging? Lose the sheathing in-orbit or let it burn-off on reentry.
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:01:37 PM PDT
by
solitas
(So what if I support a platform that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.3.7)
To: Doe Eyes
Then we just add them to the crew, maybe strapped to the outside for aero testing purposes.
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:12:22 PM PDT
by
ChefKeith
(Apply here to be added to the NASCAR Ping List, Daytona is done but we got 31 more races to go...)
To: leadpenny
To: NormsRevenge
I guess I'm at a loss to understand their reasoning.
On one hand, I can safely work as a government engineer for life, and retire to obscurity,
or,
tell me up front there is a 90% chance of being a well known, celebrated, roman candle, and for having big brass ones.
Hmmmm,
10% chance for success, or 100% chance of bordom.
easy...
Kick the tires and light the fire!
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:51:07 PM PDT
by
FreedomFarmer
(Socialism is not an ideology, it is a disease. Eliminate the vectors.)
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; ...
Life is risky no matter what.
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:53:38 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: NormsRevenge
It would take years and a total redesign of the fuel tank to completely eliminate foam loss and to ensure the 2003 Columbia tragedy would never be repeated, Muratore and other officials said.That's the price that must be paid in order to remain enviromentally correct. NASA went green and the space shuttle went down.
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