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Air Force imagery confirms Columbia wing damaged
Spaceflightnow.com ^
| 02/07/03
| CRAIG COVAULT
Posted on 02/07/2003 4:30:37 AM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Has NASA even commented on the possibilty of pre-launch sabotage? I've heard nothing about it in the media (suprise suprise) but I can't believe it isn't being considered.
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02/07/2003 4:34:17 AM PST
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tcostell
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
I take it there's little to no chance that we'll ever actually SEE this photograph...
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02/07/2003 4:36:51 AM PST
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Pyrion
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
This is hugh.
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:38:20 AM PST
by
leadpenny
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
bttt
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:40:39 AM PST
by
firewalk
To: leadpenny
huge
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02/07/2003 4:42:47 AM PST
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leadpenny
To: Freedom'sWorthIt; KneelBeforeZod; wirestripper; glock rocks; honway; thinden; aristeides
fyi
To: leadpenny
Hi, Hugh!
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:45:31 AM PST
by
Physicist
To: Physicist
Doh!
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02/07/2003 4:47:22 AM PST
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leadpenny
To: snopercod
ping
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:48:37 AM PST
by
Truth29
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
NASA's been trying to discredit the foam damage theory, but it looks more and more like that was the root cause. I heard a report the other day that said the foam never broke off until they made the manufacturer "take freon out of the recipe" to make it more environmentally friendly. Chalk another one up to being too overzealously environmentally whacko...
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:48:55 AM PST
by
trebb
To: leadpenny
A series serious of hugh blungers.
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02/07/2003 4:49:10 AM PST
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dasboot
To: dasboot
All your series hugh blunders belong to us.
To: dasboot
This is vey hugh...
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:53:26 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
('I WISH, at some point, that you would address those damned armadillos in your trousers." - JustShe)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
These include the Soyuz 1 reentry accident that killed cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov in 1967 and the 1971 Soyuz 11 reentry accident that killed three cosmonauts returning after the first long-duration stay on the Salyut 1 space station. Careful!
This is going to upset that bowling ball who posted the crack that we should be using russian proletariat superior technology because they never had accidents like we do.
*Smirk*
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
It would be nice if NASA would release the picture.
To: trebb
NASA's been trying to discredit the foam damage theory, but it looks more and more like that was the root cause.From reading this article, I came to exactly the opposite conclusion. This excerpt from the article says the damage in the Air Force photograph is at the wing root:
show a jagged edge on the left inboard wing structure near where the wing begins to intersect the fuselage
But the photos of the foam striking the wing during lift-off show the foam striking farther out on the wing. This makes me tend to agree with NASA's decision to keep looking rather than settle for the foam damage explanation.
To: trebb
how could it be foam damage? that's not where the debris hit on launch.
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02/07/2003 5:11:48 AM PST
by
I_dmc
To: Chad Fairbanks
This news item corrects a falsehood posted earlier that the Russians have had no accidents using using 1/10th the money.
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
does it strike any one oddly that a photo was snapped basically when we lost contact?
Is ground based photog normal ops ?
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