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1 posted on 07/30/2005 1:46:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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What they fail to mention is that the test repair kits are made by StarFire Systems in Malta, NY. (A neighbor business to mine).

Malta was also known for Wright-Malta and the "summer home" of Werner Von Braun while he was helping develop the first rockets for our fledgling space program.

2 posted on 07/30/2005 1:52:44 PM PDT by xcamel (Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
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none of this????


3 posted on 07/30/2005 1:53:24 PM PDT by alisasny (We get 4 more years, you get OBAMA...: ))
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***Two spacewalking astronauts armed with caulking guns, putty knives and foam brushes... ***



Later, a third "red-neck" astronaut emerged from the Shuttle carring a role of duct tape...


5 posted on 07/30/2005 1:54:09 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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A complete overhaul of NASA is in order - with new people in decision-making capacities. The decision to send up the shuttle at this particular time was a bad idea. We'll be lucky if the astronauts make it back alive. What was the rush? I heard they were under pressure to launch it. By who? Not by me. Not by the millions of us who wanted to see it go up safely. By who, then?


12 posted on 07/30/2005 2:03:43 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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(NASA Tool Time! caulk guns,putty knives and foam brushes)

How did they get all this stuff past the airport screeners?

So9

14 posted on 07/30/2005 2:06:27 PM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: NormsRevenge; All

Any physicists out there? I have a question:

If mass/matter causes a gravitational field,
Would antigravity be possible with antimatter?
And if it did, would it be possible to use this antigravity to escape Earth's gravity and achieve orbit?


18 posted on 07/30/2005 2:22:31 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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Bondo! Fill those holes and smooth it out. Slap on some paint and it's ready for sale.


22 posted on 07/30/2005 2:45:35 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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"It's about like pizza dough, like licorice-flavored pizza dough"..

What? He did he taste some?

Wonder how many $ this little science experiment cost me?


24 posted on 07/30/2005 2:57:10 PM PDT by Pessimist
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Once the repaired samples are back on Earth, engineers will analyze them to see how deep and how well the filler material penetrated.

None will be torched, however, to simulate the searing heat of re-entry. The spacewalkers had to skip the one sample intended for laboratory test-firing because they ran out of time.

YOu would have thought that one would have been FIRST on the list!


28 posted on 07/30/2005 4:08:21 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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