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Space Shuttle's Left Wing May Be Damaged
nbc4.com ^ | 20070612 | NBC News space correspondent Jay Barbree

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.


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KEYWORDS: damaged; leftwing; nasa; shuttle; shuttleatlantis
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To: tricky_k_1972

Yep, that is what the press reports say. Hopefully, he stays on for a while.


221 posted on 06/12/2007 6:46:06 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: kjam22
>>>A different propulsion method that doesn't require 93457932475 gallons of fuel in a tank the size of a skyscraper.<<<

You a graduate of the Al Gore School of Global Warming and Physics?

222 posted on 06/12/2007 6:46:26 PM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out of Qurans)
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To: HEY4QDEMS
We need to stop putting people up there.

I totally agree. We ought to be using test pilots! Those guys live for this "Buck Rogers" stuff. :)

223 posted on 06/12/2007 6:47:25 PM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: advertising guy

There was a very short-lived TV show with that premise. IIRC, it starred Andy Griffith.


224 posted on 06/12/2007 6:47:29 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

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...


225 posted on 06/12/2007 6:47:43 PM PDT by IslandJeff ("I used to care, but things have changed" - Robert Zimmerman)
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To: Army Air Corps

“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.


226 posted on 06/12/2007 6:49:10 PM PDT by IslandJeff ("I used to care, but things have changed" - Robert Zimmerman)
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To: maine-iac7
Better than that, EVERYONE will die. Not a matter of if, but when.

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.

227 posted on 06/12/2007 6:49:16 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: HEY4QDEMS
It’s expensive, worthless and most of all, dangerous.

I'm sure many Europeans in the 16th century felt the same way about the New World.

228 posted on 06/12/2007 6:50:11 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: IslandJeff

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?


229 posted on 06/12/2007 6:50:35 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: XBob

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming...


230 posted on 06/12/2007 6:52:37 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Army Air Corps

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.


231 posted on 06/12/2007 6:53:14 PM PDT by IslandJeff ("I used to care, but things have changed" - Robert Zimmerman)
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To: IslandJeff

That’s it!

I think that YouTube has the pilot episode.


232 posted on 06/12/2007 6:53:31 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Really...?


233 posted on 06/12/2007 6:53:34 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: advertising guy

What kind of alien;)


234 posted on 06/12/2007 6:55:04 PM PDT by X-FID
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To: HEY4QDEMS
I just think that a shuttle mission from start to finish, at a cost of just about 1 billion dollars, is a disgusting waste.

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.)

235 posted on 06/12/2007 6:55:19 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Severa

I’m 67, after awhile you get used to people dying.


236 posted on 06/12/2007 6:55:26 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: XBob

bump


237 posted on 06/12/2007 6:55:37 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: IslandJeff

I GUARANTY you some Russian Cosmonaut has “experimented” and tested this throughly.


238 posted on 06/12/2007 6:55:55 PM PDT by tricky_k_1972 (Putting on Tinfoil hat and heading for the bomb shelter.)
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To: IslandJeff
LOL!

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.

239 posted on 06/12/2007 6:56:06 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: IslandJeff

it would work as animation now.


240 posted on 06/12/2007 6:57:35 PM PDT by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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