But what I'd like to know is why they let people get a look at Columba while Apollo 1 and Challenger have always been kept under lock and key as far as...

Dick Morris wrote: How do airliners do it? They overfly populated areas all the time. During early flight test? I...

Because with just 2 remaining orbiters the program will be shut down. Because 2 isnt enough to operate.

Now that Story Musgrave's "spacewalk inspection" theory was given time on the ABC Special about Columbia, it seems according to him that it was quite possible...

Glenn Mahone/Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington July 15, 2003 (Phone: 202/358-1898/1600) Marny Skora Langley Research Center, Hampton,...

Will the Government Printing Office publish the working scenario? I have the file but to print it would be 189 pages. If they do, I'd bet they would...

Abrigon Gusiq wrote: What is the procedure and protocols for when the Shuttle is known to have taken some damage? I have no idea. As I said before, I'm...

Alan Erskine wrote: Just to let you all (all) know, this is the coward again. I said that "rk would be laughing right now" and here it is again. ...

Just another coward's forgery This is the one thing I don't need to worry about. -- Alan Erskine alanerskine(at)optusnet.com.au Did John Howard lie to the...

I saw on star trek once that the crew was in trouble on a shuttle craft and they saved them using a transporter beam. Why didn't NASA do this? Doesn't the...

This group is definitely going to seed... Anyone have any revelations from the Working scenario -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News...

"Sal Bruno" What about a semi-rigid lattice of RCC material . Now you've got me wondering what an RCC patch kit would consist of. The first idea that comes...

NASA released the ascent film of camera E212 very early. But I never saw that of camera ET208 wich had a look at the impact area and the underside of the wing....

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:09:17 -0500, toto...

Here's an online article from the NYT titled "Crew of Columbia Survived a Minute After Last Signal". There will no doubt be more articles about this in the...

http://www.caib.us/news/documents/impact_velocity.pdf --Due to a large drag force (an average of about 250 lbf), the debris slowed down to about 1500 fps in...

"James Oberg" wrote in message ... On Feb 24...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/national/nationalspecial/15SHUT.html?ex= 1058846400&en=22a66bcdcfdee410&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

I have never seen an explanation of the calculation to arrive at 500 mph being the velocity with which the foam hit the shuttle's wing. It seems to me that the...

I thought of posting this as a followup. There are several threads where it would fit. But then I thought it might get lost -- like my post about the effect of...