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Columbia STS-107 Entry Timeline [As of 03/10/03 Rev. G] (CBS News)
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| 10 March, 2003
| Compiled by William Harwood
Posted on 03/10/2003 4:21:29 PM PST by brityank
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To: vannrox
bttt
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posted on
03/10/2003 8:38:07 PM PST
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(Compassionate Conservative Curmudgeon)
To: wirestripper
Technically, you can fly a rock with the electronics. And the F-4 is a perfect example of the other end of that statement "with enough forward Thrust even a Brick can fly"
The F-4 may have been the only airframe ever with a Negative Glide Ratio.
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posted on
03/10/2003 8:43:35 PM PST
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: brityank
bump so I can find thhis for a later reading
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posted on
03/10/2003 8:46:06 PM PST
by
Hanging Chad
(not to be confused with "Hanging Ten" or "Hanging Wallpaper"...)
To: sam_paine
Husband and Cool apparently tried to take control 15.5 seconds before breakup.
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posted on
03/10/2003 9:05:34 PM PST
by
Thud
To: Thud
Husband and Cool apparently tried to take control 15.5 seconds before breakup.Well, that depends on what you mean by "breakup." They tried to take manual control 15.5 seconds before loss of hull integrity, or think of it as 9 MINUTES AFTER the deterioration began and began registering on sensors, or days after the initial damage was caused....
To: wirestripper
I agree. I'm an engineer by training and can read almost all of it with detachment, but this quote from Husband is chilling:
08:46:56 a.m. - STS-ICOM: Husband: "Yep. Yeah, you definitely don't want to be outside now."
Thirteen minutes later, during the time of maximum heating, he was "outside" and in the "blast furnace".
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posted on
03/10/2003 9:45:37 PM PST
by
mikegi
To: sam_paine
Very well put; I agree so much!
John
To: brityank
08:51:19/08:52:49 a.m. - Department of Defense sensor data shows first (earliest known) off-nominal event. The nature of this event is not yet known, nor is the nature or location of the sensor. Analysis of data after a data dropout shows numerous jet firings occurred around this event (L2L, L3L, R2R, R3R). NEWI don't understand exactly what's being said here. Did the DoD sensor pick up the firing of the jets or something that occurred before the firings? If I understand the terminology correctly, the left side fired first (L2L/L3L) followed by the right side (R2R/R3R). Kind of like the Columbia was fishtailing.
Less than two minutes later there is the first debris report. Is it possible to see, from the ground, the effect of a single tile falling off (eg. a separate contrail)?
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posted on
03/10/2003 10:17:05 PM PST
by
mikegi
To: brityank
Thanks for the ping, BY. Have you linked it to Bones Mccoy's thread yet?
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posted on
03/11/2003 2:42:31 AM PST
by
Budge
(God Bless FReepers!)
To: mikegi
Yes, most meteors are a grain of sand.
To: vannrox
Looks like they had time to know what was happening to them. Chilling.
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