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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: Erik Latranyi
If we lose this ship and crew heads from top to bottom will roll and NASA will have to be replaced with a PRIVATE SPACE CORP.
To: IronMan04
If I ask a question, how exactly do I cite a source?
142
posted on
07/27/2005 4:07:21 PM PDT
by
djf
(Government wants the same things I do - MY guns, MY property, MY freedoms!)
To: The Pastor
The only way to get private industry into outer space is to withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty.
This isn't a technical problem, but a legal one.
143
posted on
07/27/2005 4:07:22 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Substance is essentially the relationship of accidents to itself)
To: arbusto99
What are you talking about...Atlantis is in the assembly building...
To: djf
145
posted on
07/27/2005 4:07:52 PM PDT
by
michigander
(The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
To: MindBender26; Jeremiah Jr
Slap on the duct tape and bring her on home...
To: All
IMHO, this means that if they decide to keep the Columbia docked to the Space Station, rescue using Atlantis or Endeavor IS NOT AN OPTION.
To: Normal4me
Yep, and the steam engine, horse and buggy, vacuum tubes, etc...
Actually, I think the idea of a steam engine for cars is a good idea if we used flash boilers, one guy called into Rush about it but the substitute host, can't recall his name, cut him off before he could explain his idea. Shame really, I was very interested in it. Horse and buggy, I'll give you that one although I plead guilty to being "half-assed Amish" at times (my newest main TV set is from 1982) B-) The vacuum tube, all I can say is "real radios glow in the dark" and "long live the compactron tube!" B-)
148
posted on
07/27/2005 4:08:13 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Go Team Venture!)
To: Normal4me
Yep, and the steam engine, horse and buggy, vacuum tubes, etc...
Actually, I think the idea of a steam engine for cars is a good idea if we used flash boilers, one guy called into Rush about it but the substitute host, can't recall his name, cut him off before he could explain his idea. Shame really, I was very interested in it. Horse and buggy, I'll give you that one although I plead guilty to being "half-assed Amish" at times (my newest main TV set is from 1982) B-) The vacuum tube, all I can say is "real radios glow in the dark" and "long live the compactron tube!" B-)
149
posted on
07/27/2005 4:08:19 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Go Team Venture!)
To: RightWhale
>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.
And it will be a one shot, with ablatives. Probably land in Kansas somewhere. The idea of a "fly in space / fly in atmosphere" is stupid!
150
posted on
07/27/2005 4:08:21 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
To: MindBender26
151
posted on
07/27/2005 4:08:22 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: FreedomCalls
The shuttle is still an experimental vehicle. It is not a scheduled airliner and it does not carry paying passengers.
***So far, 14 passengers have paid with their lives.
152
posted on
07/27/2005 4:08:23 PM PDT
by
Kevin OMalley
(No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
Comment #153 Removed by Moderator
To: RightWhale
Hey, Mr. Rocket Scientist, do you have the first idea what you are talking about? The shuttle is NOT separate from a "launcher" -- the shuttle uses two solid rocket motors to augment its own liquid-fueled engines. Therefore, placing the shuttle on top of the SRBs would make it pretty difficult to use the Shuttle's engines.
Then again, you have inside information on God's blueprints, so maybe bringing up facts is a waste of my time.
To: jdm
Are you willing to support the government spending an additional 10-25 BILLION for a new spacecraft? Most American's aren't and I KNOW the dems won't support anymore deficit spending..
155
posted on
07/27/2005 4:08:35 PM PDT
by
Normal4me
(I'm sweating like a muslim wearing a backpack on a London subway!)
To: RightWhale
The next generation shuttle will have the ship on top of the launcher as God intended,As Von Braun (a god among spacecraft designers for sure) intended way back in the 1950s.
156
posted on
07/27/2005 4:08:52 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: IronMan04
Let's pray the former doesn't happen and the latter does.
157
posted on
07/27/2005 4:09:15 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: arbusto99
Why use the phrase "grounded"? It's not like they are planning more launches while Discovery is up there!Atlantis was scheduled for lift-off September 9.
158
posted on
07/27/2005 4:09:20 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: MindBender26
So they are getting double the expected loss rate?
159
posted on
07/27/2005 4:09:37 PM PDT
by
TalonDJ
To: jdm
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/science/space_shuttle "A sizable chunk of foam insulation that came flying off the shuttle Discovery's fuel tank during Tuesday's liftoff did not hit the orbiter and does not pose a risk to the seven astronauts."
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posted on
07/27/2005 4:09:43 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Tom Tancredo- The Republican Party's Very Own Cynthia McKinney.)
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