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| 02-01-03
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 02/01/2003 4:30:48 PM PST by backhoe
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: columbiatragedy; feb12003; nasa; spaceshuttle
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To: BraveMan
Thanks for the link; I'd missed that one.
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posted on
02/09/2003 9:43:38 AM PST
by
backhoe
(Time to Kick the Tires and Light the Fires- let's Roll!)
To: backhoe
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posted on
02/09/2003 10:19:08 AM PST
by
brityank
(The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)
To: brityank
Appreciate the link!
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posted on
02/09/2003 10:34:06 AM PST
by
backhoe
(Time to Kick the Tires and Light the Fires- let's Roll!)
To: backhoe
Thanks for the list. Could you please add:
Officials Eye Columbia's Last Overhaul
This story hasn't gotten much traction on FR, but I think it is important to realize that the leading edges of Columbia's wings were modified somehow at Palmdale two flights back. I am very interested in finding out 1. Why a modification was required, and 2. What exactly was done.
Among the modifications to NASA's oldest shuttle were increased protection from space debris and enhanced heat protection for the leading edges of the wings.
To: snopercod
I greatly appreciate that link & information- thanks!
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posted on
02/19/2003 3:27:53 AM PST
by
backhoe
("Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...")
To: backhoe
To: snopercod
Thanks again!
67
posted on
02/19/2003 3:58:25 AM PST
by
backhoe
("Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...")
To: All
68
posted on
02/19/2003 9:38:02 AM PST
by
backhoe
("Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...")
To: backhoe; All
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board is meeting at 2 Eastern this afternoon. Scheduled to last for three hours and can be seen on NASA-TV, C-SPAN3 and caib.us
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posted on
04/07/2003 10:56:03 AM PDT
by
leadpenny
(OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM)
To: backhoe
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The U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed during orbital re-rentry on 1 February 2003 ...
because foam (SOFI) from the External Tank (ET) severely damaged the ceramic thermal protection tiles on the orbiter Columbia ... during the launch phase ...
The nation wept and mourned the Columbia's loss ...
Congressional hearings were conducted ... to learn the "truth" about this tragedy could have been avoided ...
The "only" problem was back in 1988 ... an Aerospace Mechanical Engineer ... at the New Orleans Michoud Facility ... collected data from 30 External Tanks that had been built ...
and discovered and then ACCURATELY PREDICTED to Martin-Marietta Aerospace ... and NASA ...
that someday "weak" SOFI foam would fall from an External Tank during a Space Shuttle launch phase ...
DAMAGE the CERMAMIC TILES on the Orbiter's underside ...
resulting in the Orbiter's fiery DESTRUCTION upon re-rentry ...
just like the Space Shuttle Columbia would do 15 years later ...
Of course, some called that Aerospace Mechanical Engineer ... a "hater" ... "deluded" ... and his data analysis a "crock of shit" ...
and of course ... he was duly rewarded by NASA for his warnings by being FIRED in 1988 ...
Certainly that engineer was a man of knowledge, and at least for that moment, exhibiting a glimmer of "courage" ... in the face of professional and career disaster ...
I am he ... Free Republic's "Patton@Baston"
And I stand tonight ... (written in October 2012) unapologetic at my dire warnings about "Myth" Romney ...
knowing ... thjat just as with my accurate warnings about a destroyed Space Shuttle Orbiter ...
I am also quite "correct" in my warings about ...
Myth Romney ("Celestial God-Child from Planet Kolob") ...
In conclusion ... what ultimately destroyed the space shuttle Columbia ?
NASA and Lockheed-Martin Corporate career-climbing "Management Drones" worshiping at the altar of Man-Made Global Warming and other such unscientific nonsense.
These fools forced the substitution of the "original" SOFI material with a "green" alternative on the space shuttle engineers.
The only question is "how many" decent Engineers were blackmailed or forced to falsify data on how the "Green SOFI" wasn't worth a damn.
And what may ultimately destroy the United States Constitutional Republic ?
The "Wanna-Be-Dictator-for-Life" Obama ... and those Republican Party RINOs who prefer invitations to Washington's "best" parties to keep their beautiful wives and mistresses happily entertained ...
while those same Republican RINO sellouts give free-reign to Obama's Godless-Socialist thugs as they burn our beloved Constitution in a back-lot garbage dumpster ...
Patton-at-Bastogne
CEAI@Engineering-Excellence.US
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posted on
02/01/2013 5:12:53 AM PST
by
Patton@Bastogne
(Piss upon Obama, and his False Prophet Mohammed)
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