To: socal_parrot
He said he had never witnessed a shuttle re-entry before and is not an authority on shuttles, but he immediately thought Columbia was having problems. End of discussion.
A downside of the instant information available, is that all sorts of silliness gets broadcast, like this.
49 posted on
02/01/2003 3:36:52 PM PST by
don-o
To: don-o
No matter what, something was wrong over California and a freeper saw it on fire over Las Vegas. What ever happend, if it just keep burning on re entry but made it to Teaxs where it just exploded or something else. I don't know. But at 9:03 eastern thread time here something was already wrong.
52 posted on
02/01/2003 3:41:20 PM PST by
TLBSHOW
(God Speed as Angles trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
To: don-o
As I said earlier, NASA first noticed the problem at 8:53 Eastern. The shuttle was over California at that time.
To: don-o
A downside of the instant information available, is that all sorts of silliness gets broadcast, like this. I retract that statement.
I believe it is possible that the atronomer did see tiles falling off the wing.
242 posted on
02/02/2003 3:30:17 AM PST by
don-o
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