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Space Shuttle Fleet Grounded!
NASA sources
| MB26
Posted on 07/27/2005 3:25:59 PM PDT by MindBender26
NASA realizes debris that fell of external fuel tank yesterday came close to causing irrepairable damage to shuttle now in orbit.
Fleet GROUNDED. More later
Chances to return to flight again, no better than 50/50.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Government
KEYWORDS: deadlyfoam; enviromentalists; governmentprogram; grounded; nasa; rutan; shuttlediscovery; spaceprogram; spaceshuttle
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To: Steven W.
it's just amazing the safety record is as good as it is.
2% is a good 'total loss' rate? You really think that? I hope you don't work for an airline. There have been more than a couple serious problems in the past it is just that only 2 of blown up shuttles. No I am not saying we should be as safe as an airline. I am saying 2% rate of total vehicle destruction is kinda bad.
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posted on
07/27/2005 3:58:05 PM PDT
by
TalonDJ
To: Diddle E. Squat
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posted on
07/27/2005 3:58:17 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: MindBender26
More from KSC source. DC pissed.
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posted on
07/27/2005 3:58:34 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
To: MindBender26
To: Nowhere Man
" Sometimes I think we should have kept Apollo."Yep, and the steam engine, horse and buggy, vacuum tubes, etc...
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posted on
07/27/2005 3:59:15 PM PDT
by
Normal4me
(I'm sweating like a muslim wearing a backpack on a London subway!)
To: RightWhale
This news conference looks like a Womens Study course at the UW.
To: Halls
I believe it said....chances to return to flight are 50/50.
Meaning 50/50 that we'll every fly into space again.
Not 50/50 chances of crew returning safely. :)
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posted on
07/27/2005 4:00:18 PM PDT
by
Collier
To: TalonDJ
Storey Misgrave (crewed Shuttle 6 times) lives here now. See him about once a month. He says NASA expected 1% loss rate. Calls shuttle a "bullerfly on a bullet."
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posted on
07/27/2005 4:00:24 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
To: MindBender26
So, they're still using the environmentally friendly yet deadly main tank insulation???
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posted on
07/27/2005 4:00:45 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(give a man a program - frustrate him for a day... teach a man to program - frustrate him for life.)
To: TalonDJ
I am all for Space Exploration but this idea of returning people to the moon and to Mars is foolhardy.
Let this 'work' be done by unmanned craft.
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To: Collier
>I believe it said....chances to return to flight are 50/50.
Meaning 50/50 that we'll every fly into THIS SHITTLE DESIGN space again.
Not 50/50 chances of crew returning safely. :)
CORRECT
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posted on
07/27/2005 4:01:20 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
To: So Cal Rocket
Did the tank shed foam before the formula was changed for environmental reasons. Or was that an urban legend.
If the earlier formula was more robust, tell the envirals to pound sand and go back to the original formula.
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posted on
07/27/2005 4:01:39 PM PDT
by
hattend
(Alaska....in a time warp all it's own!)
To: MindBender26
"YOU WERE 100% SURE THEY WOULD BE NO FOAM DISPLACEMENT IN THE BOOST PHASE!" "... they would be ..."? We have NASA administrators speaking ebonics now? Maybe that's the problem.
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posted on
07/27/2005 4:01:51 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: MindBender26
Maybe they should just wrap the thing in a giant Hefty bag?
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posted on
07/27/2005 4:02:15 PM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(I really, really loathe liberals.)
To: MindBender26
I bet this news makes the crew up in space right now, feel really good!
To: Collier
The next generation shuttle will have the ship on top of the launcher as God intended, not hanging off the side where stuff flies off and always will.
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posted on
07/27/2005 4:02:23 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Substance is essentially the relationship of accidents to itself)
To: MindBender26
Say Good Bye to Bush's (manned) Mars Mission.
To: The Pastor
"The shuttle is the best in 1970's technology"
LOL.
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posted on
07/27/2005 4:02:39 PM PDT
by
jdm
(The answer to the extra credit question on a Columbia U exam is always choice C: "Bush's Fault.")
To: BurbankKarl
This news conference looks like a Womens Study course at the UW. Yeah, ya think these rocket scientists coulda picked a better color for the SRB tank besides FLESH!
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