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Shuttle Contact LOST-No Tracking Data During RE-Entry!
Nasa TV | 02/01/03 | GRRRR

Posted on 02/01/2003 6:16:05 AM PST by GRRRRR

Shuttle has NOT been heard from or seen on tracking radar since 0800Hrs CDT. No contact at Merrit Island tracking station, no voice comm...DEVELOPING.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: astronauts; columbia; columbiatragedy; disaster; du; feb12003; ilanramon; india; israel; nasa; ramon; revoltingevilduers; shuttle; space; spaceshuttle; sts107; unitedstates
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To: husky ed
>>...but in no way are these people heroes....<<

You stand underneath that bird on the pad as I have, THEN you make that statement!

ANYBODY that goes up in that bird is a HERO to me.

1,981 posted on 02/01/2003 10:59:40 AM PST by FReepaholic
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To: Will_Zurmacht

On the shuttle, or on the ground?

1,982 posted on 02/01/2003 10:59:49 AM PST by Jhoffa_ (I AM Bad Ash..)
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To: Moose4
Care to dumb that down for those of us who can't comprehend speeds like that, and don't understand avionics?
1,983 posted on 02/01/2003 10:59:54 AM PST by The South Park Republican
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To: Jhoffa_
Shut up and give it a rest. Rise above it and just ignore it.
1,984 posted on 02/01/2003 10:59:56 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: aristeides
Thanks aristeides...

CBS Radio: there was a loss of telemetry from the left wing before the breakup.

They will have a lot of data that will be embargo'ed, I'd expect, but bits like you picked up, will occur.

1,985 posted on 02/01/2003 11:00:01 AM PST by OReilly
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To: GRRRRR
may the Good Lord Bless and Keep Them
1,986 posted on 02/01/2003 11:00:27 AM PST by The Wizard (Demonrats are enemies of America)
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To: Jhoffa_
A friend of mine has Al-Jazeera, and said that the network did show some celebrating... Sick, sick bastards.
1,987 posted on 02/01/2003 11:00:38 AM PST by .577 Tyrannosaur
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To: CindyDawg
I think I caught the Shepard Smith comment about the Indian astronaut. He mentioned that she had flown on another mission and she made some mistake in relation to a satellite and they had to send another astronaut out to retrieve it.
1,988 posted on 02/01/2003 11:00:55 AM PST by Floratina
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To: conservativemusician
Okay, on further thought I will concurr that it is dangerous but I guess I have a different idea of what a hero should be and not what Clinton and the press has been telling us one is for the last 10 years.
1,989 posted on 02/01/2003 11:01:04 AM PST by husky ed
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To: The Wizard
Per NBC News, the President is about to go live!!
1,990 posted on 02/01/2003 11:01:09 AM PST by Timesink (I offered her a ring, she gave me the finger)
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To: Will_Zurmacht
abc just had their pentagon reporter metion a "thermal event detected"

I believe they'll find (when looking at timestamps) that the event was the explosion of Columbia.
1,991 posted on 02/01/2003 11:02:08 AM PST by GirlShortstop
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Take your own advice..

(It's free and worth every penny)

1,992 posted on 02/01/2003 11:02:12 AM PST by Jhoffa_ (I AM Bad Ash..)
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To: husky ed
They are heroes because the risks of service to their country were so great. They knew they could die serving their country but braved the risk to serve.

That's why they are heroes.

If that's not the definition of heroism, then heroism has no meaning.
1,993 posted on 02/01/2003 11:02:25 AM PST by SarahW
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To: The South Park Republican
Kinda like popping a wheelie while using a hurricane to slow your fall off of a cliff.
1,994 posted on 02/01/2003 11:02:31 AM PST by alancarp
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To: Smile-n-Win
I will accept that.
1,995 posted on 02/01/2003 11:02:52 AM PST by husky ed
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To: Petronski
>>... strongly suspect the Soviets discovered something during the Buran test flights that turned them white with fear at what would happen if it actually flew with humans aboard...<<

I read an extensive article recently on the Buran. It was costs and bureaucratic in-fighting that did it in.

1,996 posted on 02/01/2003 11:03:22 AM PST by FReepaholic
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To: Floratina
I think I caught the Shepard Smith comment about the Indian astronaut. He mentioned that she had flown on another mission and she made some mistake in relation to a satellite and they had to send another astronaut out to retrieve it.

WOW! Pretty gutsy (And kind of stupid in an "Assumming" way) statement.

Anybody know how much control these astronauts have over the shuttle during the time this thing broke-up? And, any idea if she was behind the controls?

Of course, my questions are based on the assumption that she really did screw-up like Shep alluded too.

1,997 posted on 02/01/2003 11:03:39 AM PST by The South Park Republican
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To: The Raven

30 seconds to Bush live


1,998 posted on 02/01/2003 11:03:41 AM PST by Timesink (I offered her a ring, she gave me the finger)
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To: .577 Tyrannosaur

You will ruffle feathers by telling the truth here..

It's FReerepublic doncha know.

1,999 posted on 02/01/2003 11:03:44 AM PST by Jhoffa_
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To: Jhoffa_
i really don't know , it was just that the pentagon was looking into 2 things, 1. a "unusual thermal event" detected by the launch detection satellite ( i am assuming ground but dont know, or 2. maps of space debris which the pentagon does, keeping shuttles out of space junk fields....whole thing struck me a really odd, but i still lean heavily on a tragic accident 99.99%
2,000 posted on 02/01/2003 11:04:04 AM PST by Will_Zurmacht
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