Debris strike?

3.5 minutes GET? I'm sure I saw two pieces of debris from ahead of the SRB
camera come loose and hit the HRSI.

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
...
3.5 minutes GET? I'm sure I saw two pieces of debris from ahead of the
SRB camera come loose and hit the HRSI.

Sorry - ET camera - not the SRB.

"Alan Erskine" wrote in
:

3.5 minutes GET? I'm sure I saw two pieces of debris from ahead of
the SRB camera come loose and hit the HRSI.

I saw one piece definitely bounce; replays now beginning...

--Damon

Alan Erskine wrote:
3.5 minutes GET? I'm sure I saw two pieces of debris from ahead of the SRB
camera come loose and hit the HRSI.


And during ET separation, there seemed to be a rectangular white spot on
the tail end of the starboard wing.

Also, did I hear "go *with* throttle up" ? Or was it just my imagination ?

(there have been many discussions




BTW, CNN entertainment network is now replaying the 2 pieces/foam and
discussing this.

Note that this video shows a rather slow speed for the debris, at the
altitude they won't have that much speed/energy relative to the shuttle.

On Sat, 31 May 2008 21:08:14 GMT, "Alan Erskine"
wrote:

3.5 minutes GET? I'm sure I saw two pieces of debris from ahead of the SRB
camera come loose and hit the HRSI.

There were several debris events. One fairly sizable piece ricocheted
off Discovery's belly/right wing root area. The NSF.com guys are all
downplaying that, but I don't know... looked pretty large and the
impact was substantial.

Another smaller piece sailed by without impact and I think it cast a
shadow as it past, so it looked like two pieces.

Brian

"Damon Hill" wrote in message
...
"Alan Erskine" wrote in
:

3.5 minutes GET? I'm sure I saw two pieces of debris from ahead of
the SRB camera come loose and hit the HRSI.

I saw one piece definitely bounce; replays now beginning...

I saw a small piece that I thought was two, but it had a shadow and didn't
hit. That was just after SRB sep. About a minute later, there was a much
larger piece which definitely hit; near the leading edge of the 'root
extension'.

On May 31, 10:25*pm, John Doe wrote:
Alan Erskine wrote:
3.5 minutes GET? *I'm sure I saw two pieces of debris from ahead of the SRB
camera come loose and hit the HRSI.

And during ET separation, there seemed to be a rectangular white spot on
the tail end of the starboard wing.

Also, did I hear "go *with* throttle up" ? Or was it just my imagination ?
...........................I've been re-watching the launch,checking
out that debris etc,Houston, definitely said "at" and I THINK Mark
Kelly said ".....at..." too.....................

wrote:
On May 31, 10:25 pm, John Doe wrote:
Alan Erskine wrote:
3.5 minutes GET? I'm sure I saw two pieces of debris from ahead of the SRB
camera come loose and hit the HRSI.
And during ET separation, there seemed to be a rectangular white spot on
the tail end of the starboard wing.

Also, did I hear "go *with* throttle up" ? Or was it just my imagination ?
...........................I've been re-watching the launch,checking
out that debris etc,Houston, definitely said "at" and I THINK Mark
Kelly said ".....at..." too.....................

That's correct, the call was "at" throttle up. "With" wouldn't make any
sense, because the call is made *after* throttle up and is a voice check
that throttle up was successful.