To: bonesmccoy
Sorry. I've worked on the Space Shuttle for 20+ years. There's no way humans can be "saved" at 200,000 miles high. There's no oxygen there and no escape hatches at the enormous speed.
What probably happened was that some of the carbon carbon leading edge tiles were missing and the Shuttle Orbiter burned up on reentry.
993 posted on
02/01/2003 8:06:34 AM PST by
Gracey
To: Gracey
Earlier thread said that the Deorbit went perfectly (NASA statement, 819AM)
To: Gracey
There's no way humans can be "saved" at 200,000 miles high. Obviously. Since that distance is close to the orbit of the Moon. You meant 200,000 feet perhaps?
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