'On behalf of posters on Free Republic, I post this with deepest sympathy for the crew and their families.
Mission - sts107
Posted on 02/01/2003 6:16:05 AM PST by GRRRRR
Shuttle has NOT been heard from or seen on tracking radar since 0800Hrs CDT. No contact at Merrit Island tracking station, no voice comm...DEVELOPING.
It might look like a plane was up there, but it would likely be at least 150,000 feet lower, and simply appear like it was next to the shuttle.
And oft at midnight's silent hour, when brilliant planets shall guide the ocean, thy name will rise to heaven's highest star, and mingle with my soul's devotion.
That's beautiful, thank you so much for posting this. Our prayers go to the families and to our countries who have lost brave pioneers.
'On behalf of posters on Free Republic, I post this with deepest sympathy for the crew and their families.
Mission - sts107
dembabe (44 posts)
Feb-01-03, 10:37 AM (ET)
16. I am embarrassed to be HERE right now!!
This is a sick post. All you guys can think of right now is Bush!! I came here to talk about and pray for the crew. I thought we'd put our differences aside on politics on this sad day. I feel really dirty and ashamed right now.
...REF my thread..My 2 cents worth on the fact that Democrats are leaving their party...
Just one more reason REAL Americans are coming back to the GOP
If they do, they will only make the world angry at them again.
Do you remember that article about some guy flying around in a plane who said he needed to talk to someone about the Israel pilot on the shuttle? He had a waring he wanted to tell someone? People thought he was planning to hit a buildng but that's not what he wanted? It was a small plane. It was an article posted on FR.
They've already said that there is no missle or weapon capable of flying high enough to reach it. And I'm guessing that everything on that shuttle goes through multiple checks and is probably monitored and tested continually.
Right. Astronaut pilots and commanders use T-38s to train in. It keeps their flying skills sharp.
How did this reentry differ from previous ones? Do you normally hear a sonic boom? Also, I wonder how the contrail shown on the videos differs from a normal descent. Is it normally that visible and large (of course, I'm referring to the part before the breakup).
We've got troops massing
in Arab lands that hate us.
Germany and France
are pissed off because
we may end up in charge of
all middle east oil.
This is the context
where it's only rational
to suspect foul play.
A security officer is shown with the shuttle landing facility in the background with a waiting fire truck after the scheduled landing of the space shuttle Columbia at the Kennedy Space Center (news - web sites) in Cape Canaveral, Florida February 1, 2003. The agency lost contact at around 9 a.m./1400 GMT, about 16 minutes before its scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center. Columbia is NASA (news - web sites)'s oldest shuttle and first flew in 1981. The shuttle was carrying a crew of seven back to earth, on a 16-day scientific research mission. REUTERS/Duffin McGee
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