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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: Timesink
A video image of a helmet that dropped into a yard in Norwood Community, Texas from the space shuttle Columbia is seen February 1, 2002. Many parts of the shuttle along with human remains were found in the area. NASA (news - web sites) officials later removed the helmet. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
To: George W. Bush
In as much as I like our President, and to a large degree your posts, I see no useful purpose served with your nic, unless you're the genuine article.
To: bribriagain
...I see no useful purpose served with your nic,...
I don't see any purpose served by any screen name. But I don't don't care to recount the history of how I got it. I'll change it when the management tells me to.
To: joanie-f
;-) Another poster opined that we need the frogs in this war like we need an accordian on a deer hunt.
2,464
posted on
02/01/2003 6:47:01 PM PST
by
lodwick
(God help us all.)
To: tscislaw
I thought Enterprise was first.
2,465
posted on
02/01/2003 6:48:36 PM PST
by
jayef
To: George W. Bush
Well, in the mean time, give Laura a kiss for me.
To: wasp69
I checked out that video clip, and I'm not sure that the object you see can clearly be identified. It looks too big to be the tail.
Even so, I think one issue is the position of the "shuttle" in that video and the fact that the clip lasts several seconds. At 18,000 miles per hour, I can't imagine that the spacecraft would maintain that position for even a few seconds -- it would have to start gyrating/rotating wildly just because of the flow of air around it.
To: lodwick
"I don't see any purpose served by any screen name. "
Agree, that's why I'm taking the unused screen name "Jim Robinson"
To: bribriagain
CBS News on radio: four confirmed recoveries of human remains.
To: jayef
Enterprise was not a "space craft" but more of a full scale mock up used for testing purposes in the atmosphere. It was released from a mother plane, then glided to landing. Columbia was the first shuttle spacecraft.
prisoner6
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posted on
02/01/2003 7:02:59 PM PST
by
prisoner6
( I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! I am a FREE MAN!)
To: FITZ
I saw a pretty large meteor last night...At this point nothing can be ruled out.
Have you contacted the authorities about what you witnessed?
Who knows... it could prove to be valuable information.
To: nicollo
A life-defining moment for me -- the making of a conservative, right there in Bethesda, MD, Montgomery County, Liberal-Central. I knew immediately it wasn't the stench of pot that was wrong that day. Or Three Mile Island. My epiphany took place while in high school in the mid-seventies. I lived with my screamingly liberal step mother. I compared the dogma with that which I could observe- and found the dogma wanting. All of these many years later, and liberals still don't make any sense.
2,472
posted on
02/01/2003 7:04:36 PM PST
by
Riley
(I STILL think that DUers must all look like the Comic Book guy on the Simpsons.)
To: Keith in Iowa
>Let it go. Good advice for a number of folks on this thread. All of the "DU" / "NO DU" BS on this thread was an unwanted and occasionally offensive sidebar conversation. I wish FReepers would lay off of this BS on threads like this which are discussing serious issues and facts.
To: prisoner6
Good Lord, MSNBC is showing animation of the break up. Talk about specualtion.
prisoner6
2,474
posted on
02/01/2003 7:06:20 PM PST
by
prisoner6
( I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! I am a FREE MAN!)
To: jayef
"I thought Enterprise was first?"
It was but they only used it as a landing trainer off the back of the 747. I think it mainly sits as a display at the visitors area at the Kennedy Space Center.
2,475
posted on
02/01/2003 7:10:45 PM PST
by
txradioguy
(HOOAH! Not just a word, A way of life!)
To: jayef
>>...I thought Enterprise was first...<<
Enterprise never flew in orbit. It was a test vehicle taken up atop a special Boeing 747 then released and glided back to earth.
To: antiLiberalCrusader
We should've had its replacement ready...Possibly.
I heard though that with the latest refurbishment this orbiter, Columbia, was actually now the newest of the fleet.
We gotta remember that nothing is ever 100% full proof, and when you're coming through an atmosphere where your getting 3000 degrees of temps, anything is possible.
This isn't a drive to the grocery store to pick up milk. Any test pilot will tell you the risks will always be enormous.
We expect perfection, but this isn't a perfect world.
To: bonesmccoy
Who is this Nelson guy? Was he the one on Fox that was totaly misusing statistics to say that this HAD to happen?
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posted on
02/01/2003 7:14:40 PM PST
by
TankerKC
(If all else fails, blame it on a lack of patriotism.)
To: aristeides
May God bless their souls.
To: tscislaw
I thought the whole space station project was specifically intended to be a joint U.S.-Russian initiative. The Russians were supposed to do what they did best (routine launches for paload delivery, spend long periods of time in space, etc.), while the U.S. would do what it did best (state-of-the-art technology, dealing with unusual high-tech components, etc.).
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