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Shooting at Johnson Space Center (Updates at 487 & 488)
Fox News ^ | 04-20-07 | WestVirginiaRebel

Posted on 04/20/2007 12:38:13 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel

Fox News reporting a shooting at the Johnson Space Center Building 44, building evacuated.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: astronut; cho; copycat; losersyndrome; shooting
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To: Calvin Locke

MSNBC has good coverage.


181 posted on 04/20/2007 1:34:58 PM PDT by fatima (Shut up Murtha)
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To: Rte66

Allright, lets see if they learned anything from VT.

Anyone in close proximity should bumrush him and tackle him down....


182 posted on 04/20/2007 1:35:39 PM PDT by HOTTIEBOY (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: john316
site wide evac ? or just bldg 44?

Bldg 44 and some nearby buildings, per some reports.
183 posted on 04/20/2007 1:36:15 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: HOTTIEBOY

Easy to say, as we are not in that situation.

Who knows how one would react?


184 posted on 04/20/2007 1:37:03 PM PDT by Tx Angel
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To: Bryan24

Gunman Reported In NASA Building

NASA spokesman James Hartsfield said the building was “one of the smaller” office buildings on the JSC campus, where Mission Control is based.

He declined to speculate on how the person got a gun inside NASA security or his motives.

A source inside JSC told CBS Station KHOU that a meeting was under way in a conference room when the gunman walked in and pointed a gun at one person. He ordered everyone else out.

That report has not been confirmed by NASA officials......

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/20/national/main2711571.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._2711571


185 posted on 04/20/2007 1:39:37 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: All

There was a conference going on and one man came in with a gun and took one hostage and told everyone else to leave.

Evidently, this was *after* the shots were fired, but they’re not saying.


186 posted on 04/20/2007 1:40:36 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

At least this could get the media the hell out of Blacksburg before I go there tomorrow.


187 posted on 04/20/2007 1:40:42 PM PDT by KoRn (FRED THOMPSON FOR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Tx Angel

true....


188 posted on 04/20/2007 1:40:43 PM PDT by HOTTIEBOY (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: freeperfromnj

Oh no, that sounds like maybe a hostage situation. And he threatened people with the gun. This just got a whole lot more serious.


189 posted on 04/20/2007 1:40:49 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Too blessed to be stressed.)
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To: freeperfromnj

Now that’s not good to hear:’(


190 posted on 04/20/2007 1:41:38 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: fatima
Yeah, we've been flipping around. Whatshisname on CNN is doesn't inspire watching.

The split screen on FNC is nice, though, especially w/o Shep.

191 posted on 04/20/2007 1:42:48 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Dead Corpse
I hate to ask this, but is this another "Gun Free Zone" type thing?

Yep public building and all that .... but there are probably some Texans that ignore that part of the CCW law.

192 posted on 04/20/2007 1:43:01 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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To: All
Does anyone know whether or not this guy would have an increase in access to sensitive NASA info (ie.computers, file cabs., etc) with a whole bldg. to himself? Or is NASA able to shut down computer systems centrally, block out access, or would passwords on the computer itself block him. his goal doesn't have to be murder. Just thinking out loud.
193 posted on 04/20/2007 1:43:03 PM PDT by Weight of Glory
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To: HOTTIEBOY

From what Cavuto & FBI related guest are saying, lonegunman/nasa contractor, has barricaded himself in, by himself, without taking any hostages. If true, as long as there’s no way for him to ..like ignite large tanks of rocket fuel, why not just wait him out?


194 posted on 04/20/2007 1:43:09 PM PDT by NickatNite2003 (From the Man from Hope" to the wife who snarls "Abandon All Hope!")
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

I hope a stray bullet doesn’t hit the shuttle. If hail can delay the launch three months, just imagine how long a bullet hole will delay it. What a multi-billion dollar joke that thing turned out to be!


195 posted on 04/20/2007 1:43:28 PM PDT by GunnyHartman (Proud Infidel)
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To: prairiebreeze

Yeah, they said that after you turn onto Saturn Lane, it’s on the left and there are large “radar balls” very visible. I don’t know what those are - but I can see some big spheres.

(Now they’re saying that Jacobs Engineering is hdqred in Pasadena, CA - earlier, they said it was out of TN.)


196 posted on 04/20/2007 1:44:09 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: Rte66
Boom Quad just came.
197 posted on 04/20/2007 1:44:33 PM PDT by fatima (Shut up Murtha)
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To: GunnyHartman
...I hope a stray bullet doesn’t hit the shuttle. If hail can delay the launch three months, just imagine how long a bullet hole will delay it. What a multi-billion dollar joke that thing turned out to be!...

They immediately locked down all the launch pads at the Johnson Space Center. Standard operating procedure.

They then covered the shuttle orbiters with kevlar to prevent a bullet strike.

Idiot.

198 posted on 04/20/2007 1:45:40 PM PDT by FReepaholic (This tagline could indicate global warming.)
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To: Weight of Glory

Unless this guy is an IT support person with admin access, all he can do to the computers is shoot them.


199 posted on 04/20/2007 1:45:48 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right....)
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To: Centurion2000
but there are probably some Texans that ignore that part of the CCW law.

None that I know ..

200 posted on 04/20/2007 1:46:05 PM PDT by proud_2_B_texasgal
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