Posted on 06/12/2007 4:48:53 PM PDT by XBob
Space Shuttle's Left Wing May Be Damaged Meteorite, Space Junk May Have Struck Panels
POSTED: 5:13 pm EDT June 12, 2007 UPDATED: 7:00 pm EDT June 12, 2007 Email This Story | Print This Story Sign Up for Breaking News Alerts WASHINGTON -- A meteorite or space junk may have struck Space Shuttle Atlantis' left wing, according to NBC News space correspondent Jay Barbree.
NASA recorded a hit on reinforced carbon panels 7 and 8 on the left wing. The panels keep heat from re-entry from burning the spacecraft.
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This is the same area where foam damaged Columbia's left wing and caused it to break up, killing its crew on Feb. 1, 2003.
Yep, that is what the press reports say. Hopefully, he stays on for a while.
You a graduate of the Al Gore School of Global Warming and Physics?
I totally agree. We ought to be using test pilots! Those guys live for this "Buck Rogers" stuff. :)
There was a very short-lived TV show with that premise. IIRC, it starred Andy Griffith.
Now one would think that information would be readily apparent. Pounding a quart of Bass could be rendered meaningless by weightlessness.
I think the organic acts of swallowing and breathing are “weightless”, but you know stuff isn’t always moving toward the back of the theater...
“Salvage One”. A mad old guy who washed out of NASA with some rogue engineers. Fun show at the time, we’d wince watching it today.
So, to the naysayers I’d ask, “How much is your life worth? Can you quantify it? In dollars? How much would you be willing to pay to get an extra day, or month, or year, or even decade?” So worthiness/worthlessness is subjective.
If we remain only on this World, we will eventually run out of resources, an asteroid or comet will hit it, or a super disease will strike, in essence, we’ll go extinct.
Nothing could be more selfish and foolish to our progeny than to stay here on Earth.
Mankind MUST move into Space or die out.
I'm sure many Europeans in the 16th century felt the same way about the New World.
Well, I am thinking of the effects of getting hammered. For example, when that “spinning room” sensation kicks in. Also, would a hangover be more bearable or less bearable?
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming...
We can’t be fooled, here. You KNOW after sixscore-plus missions someone up there had a drink or two. Hell, I’d raise a sealed bottle of Maker’s Mark to my first Earthrise.
That’s it!
I think that YouTube has the pilot episode.
Really...?
What kind of alien;)
So are farm subsidies, food stamps and medicare. They all consume more than NASA's paltry $15 billion budget (four tenths of one percent of the total federal budget.)
I’m 67, after awhile you get used to people dying.
bump
I GUARANTY you some Russian Cosmonaut has “experimented” and tested this throughly.
I also have pondered “indelicate” questions such the mechanics of a guy and a gal, um, “docking”. I have heard folks say that it can be done in water, but zero-g and micro-g are still a bit different than being in a neutral buoyancy tank.
it would work as animation now.
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