Posted on 09/15/2021 3:52:20 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
I was stationed there 2001-2004 when it was Patrick AFB.
We were a detachment, not assigned to the 45th Space Wing.
My (uber-lib) sister calls this the actual start of ‘space tourism’.
Obviously we didn’t “see” the reentry as it came apart all over the place...
I am sorry. NASA effed up. They could have done the repair.
I think they changed the tiles for “environmental” BS reasons.
It never should have happened.
I also watched on tv when the Challenger blew up.
We were in school and the teachers wanted us to see since
Christa McAuliffe was on board.
It blew up, they removed the tv and wouldn’t talk about it.
It was weird, so it stands out in my memory.
Isaacman has the world’s largest private collection of jet fighters. It appears he’s a pretty good pilot.
that is awful. I am sorry.
Thanks, just an unfortunate part of life.
That’s exactly what it is.
The fundraising is good, sure.
The science is perfunctory justification.
Comes down to “hey, let’s orbit”.
That would be COOL.
IIRC, it was the glue or foam they used to adhere the tiles to the shuttle Columbia that they changed because the lefty thumbsuckers threw a tantrum over it somehow being ‘environmentally unsafe’. So, NASA went green and lost some of the spray foam at liftoff. The rest is a tragedy in history. I had a supervisor’s aide (AKA, a butt-kisser) tell me a few years earlier that his father was a security supervisor in Mission Control when the Challenger’s tank blew. He told me the details of what his father saw. He said they knew from the telemetry that some of the astronauts were alive and conscious in the cockpit and crew compartment all the way down, until impact. I thought he was telling a fish story, until the details slowly leaked out about the disaster, and it corroborated everything he told me.
It won’t be anywhere near the last unnecessary fatalities because of liberal scum.
Why taxpayers are not paying for this launch
Just for the Hellofit, and to raise $200,000,000.00 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Both are GREAT REASONS!
IMHO!
Like when Obummer was more worried about NASA’s Muslim outreach than manned spaceflight. I’m amazed we got anything off the ground for eight years, much less made orbit.
Challenger blew because they launched outside the contract temperature limits, and the solid rocket booster O-rings failed, allowing hot gasses to impinge on the liquid fuel tank.
Had been below FReezing the night before launch, and the the vehicle was cold soaked - O rings shrink in cold weather.
The solid rocket booster contract called for, IIRC, minimum launch temperature of 59°F.
“I see no reason for this.”
What is your beef with St Jude Children’s Research Hospital?
That’s what happens when you go from Wernher von Braun to some liberal pansy.
I’d do it for $1.00!
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