Shuttle Contact LOST-No Tracking Data During RE-Entry!

Nasa TV | 02/01/03 | GRRRR

[capitan_refugio]

The justification is that, with the knowledge of what happened, corrections can be made so that it does not happen again.

Probably, the reason no one disagreed with your comments here is that no one really cares what you have to say. So just go back to your K-mart threads where you can make a real impact.

[Houmatt]

Oh, and they care about what you have to say?

You can stop trolling now.

[capitan_refugio]

Well Houmatt, I went back and reviewed the posts on the thread beginning with your #619 to SkyPilot #515. On that post your opined that people who were interested in the truth of the Challenger disaster were "sick sadists." On #734 by bonesmccoy and on #2426 by capitan_refugio were corrections to your statements in #619. In #2522, you didn't "give a crap."

Over 2500 posts to this thread, and NOBODY has agreed with you regarding Challenger. That's quite a record! You certainly are entitled to you opinions, no matter how irrational they might be, and how bombastically you state them. Please try and be civil.

[Cvengr]

Thanks

[lodwick]

Come on guys - we are better than this.

Please let it go - it's not worth it.

[joanie-f]

Thanks for remembering. :)

[joanie-f]

If we drop the froggies on the 'Raqis, will that make them surrender?

Hardly.

Froggies are too fluffy for effective use in drop-weaponry. A better choice would be a more (physically) dense people – Kentothians, perhaps?

[joanie-f]

I see your (goofy) piano accordion, sir

.... and raise you a (classic) Steinway grand.

(dueling instruments .... :)

[BaBaStooey]

why do I have the feeling that this is the only thing we will be talking about for the next week? I'll go on a freeper vacation and come back when the cameras are back on Iraq (like when the human eating sharks breathed sighs of relief when 9-11 happened)

[Jen]

A freeper vacation? Is that when you stay home from work and freep all day and night? Surely, you can't mean going without FR!! ;-)

[bonesmccoy]

Gentlemen,

The stack lauches to the East in order to take advantage of the fact that the Earth is rotating OPPOSITE to the launch azimuth. The closer the trajectory is to the equator, the higher the payload capability.

In fact, the orbiter is flying from West to East because the launch occurs from West to East. The Earth is rotating the ground from "East" to "West" under the vehicle. That gives an extra relative velocity to the ground.

[bonesmccoy]

Dear "Houmatt",

Since NASA is a governmental agency and is using American taxpayer dollars to assure our national interests, it is incumbent upon our national space agency to follow the scientific process in an accident investigation.

You are obviously unconnected to the program and definitely ill-informed regarding the post-mortem evaluation of the Challenger crew.

While your sense of ethics may be violated by the scientific process that occurs after EVERY USAF and NASA accident, your misinformation impacts public perception of the scientific and engineering processes involved with the crew's demise. Because Free Republic has such widespread readership, I do my best to review these threads for misinformation amongst the FR following.

Your facts are incorrect.

My only interest is in correcting the record. No hurt feelings are intended, and my apologies if your sensibilities feel violated. However, it was YOU who chose to broach the subject.

Returning the shuttle to flight capability will require the investigation to be willing to discuss matters, including how the crew died. These discussions are not meant to be a macabre spectacle for TV News media. They are intended to be a medical and scientific process in order to better design systems for the future.

The crew of 51-L deserved to have the question of when and how they perished solved. It was a very thorough investigation by Dr. Kerwin and the reality is that the report is part of aerospace history.

Ad Astra!

[bonesmccoy]

From Houston Has Lost Contact With Space Shuttle Columbia
MSNBC Breaking Live

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/833912/posts?page=3#3

[sweetliberty]

"Excellent history lesson"

We certainly get much more than just the news here don't we, Loddy?

[sweetliberty]

Thanks for the post agitator. We may have the best real time, civilian documentation out there. Y'all were up and at it early. I got up yesterday just before the shuttle went missing, and was on this thread from the outset. Have you seen this?

The Web Gets a Scoop (Congratulations, Free Republic!)

Can't remember if it had been posted before on this thread, but if not it needs to be. Along with these:

Attention "Thread of Silence" Posters

STS-107 TRIBUTE

[bonesmccoy]

Snopercod,
Your comments are cogent but unnecessarily cynical. The nation will not turn it's back on crewed spaceflight. ISS is flying with an existing mission. Do you believe the nation wants to abandon it's leadership role in the ISS program?

I doubt it.

If we did make that policy decision, we would have basically handed the ISS to the Russians as a Mir-2 vehicle.

Right now, due to the Clinton Administration's poor policy and planning, we have only one route to space and it's Russian owned.

Having NASA stop launch processing on OV-103 is not surprising. Portraying it as a sign of a bureaucratic decision to abandon the manned space program is really premature.

The reality is that the space agency has little choice. The reality is that the processing needs to be halted because the workforce needs to be retasked on the disaster investigation and recovery operations which are just beginning.

It took several months for the wreckage of Challenger to be located and swept from the Atlantic.

[lavaroise]

Take your hatred someplace else. Not EVERYTHING is the fault of Muslims. I think you would feel more comfortable on DUhhh right now. They're blaming this on Bush. I hold you in the same regard as them.

My hatred? What about your blithering hatred and uncouth indiference to the safety of America's sanctuaries? But I guess you prefered no outrage for me and Saddam Hussein saying it is God's revenge. Says it all. The lines are drawn, hatred or not, the game is there.

[lavaroise]

Not EVERYTHING is the fault of Muslims. <

and did I mean that? MORON #2 alert.

[lodwick]

Have a Grand day, and eat it also.
Cheesecake piano

[lodwick]

Have a Grand day, and eat it also.
Cheesecake piano