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"Latest Shuttle News... left wing fried..."
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03-10-03, 12:51 PM (EST)
 
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1. "The blame game" |
It seems to me that NASA and Boeing have been trying extra-hard to leak theories that would indicate that something OTHER than tile damage from the foam insulation peeling off and hitting the shuttle was the cause of the disaster. That way, NASA officials wouldn't look so irresponsible for canceling the satellite "fly-by" to investigate the tile damage.However, the facts keep getting in NASA's and Boeing's way: Boeing questions How the damage occurred
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AyaK 10426 desperate attention whore postings
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03-10-03, 04:43 PM (EST)
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4. "Agree ... but" |
LAST EDITED ON 03-10-03 AT 04:48 PM (EST)The ISS was not an option, but who knows what could have been done if NASA had KNOWN that there was a problem instead of ASSUMING there wasn't? (Remember Apollo 13!) Spacewalk to find out? NASA, however, was very quick to report that nothing could have been done in any event, which is the entire point of this article. It makes a nice story, but -- as the investigation proceeds -- I'm certain we'll find that, in fact, something COULD have been done. As I said, it's all about the blame game in Washington.
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desert_rhino 10087 desperate attention whore postings
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03-10-03, 06:17 PM (EST)
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5. "RE: Agree ... but" |
Had they investigated much earlier, energy, oxygen, and consumables would have been conserved earlier, stretching them, and more time would have been available to get a rescue started. Yes, starting from landing day, odds are good not one damn thing would have helped. Starting from the day after launch, I'd lay good money it'd have been possible to get a shuttle up.The only one I clearly ruled out was the ISS, and that's just plain math. another thing to consider is why we DON'T have a quick-launch capacity of any sort? What if the ISS crew *needs* rescuing, suddenly? -- JV 
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03-10-03, 06:25 PM (EST)
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6. "ISS Crew lifeboat..." |
The ISS has a Russian Soyuz capsule that is permanently attached to the station for use as an escape pod to return to earth.
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03-10-03, 07:44 PM (EST)
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8. "Yup... In that case..." |
They're screwed...
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