"RacinBob" (racinbob)
10/22/2020 at 20:45 • Filed to: None
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"RacinBob" (racinbob)
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Apparently foreign object strikes to heat shield were not a new problem that was isolated to Columbia.
ranwhenparked
> RacinBob
10/22/2020 at 20:55 |
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with all we know now about the issues with the shuttles and NASA's general attitude toward safety (that's not supposed to happen, but its never caused a major problem, so we'll continue to ignore it/that looks bad, but fixing it would be hard, so let's ignore it) it's amazing we only lost two.
f86sabre
> RacinBob
10/22/2020 at 21:12 |
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Some pics of the damage. That was a close one. The shuttle was amazing, but delicate.
Also, Hoot Gibson was a badass.
Here is another one for you...
PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
> RacinBob
10/22/2020 at 21:45 |
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One of the labs I supported while working for Lockheed Martin made the tile repair kits, this article was interesting.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-feb-06-na-repair6-story.html
zipfuel
> RacinBob
10/22/2020 at 23:07 |
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Funny enough we were
reading
my son’s big
pop-up book of space today and talking about
what capsules/rockets
still fly
(sozuz, dragon etc) and he
asked
why they don’t use shuttles anymore?.... I told him they didn’t work quite
as well as everyone expected and got worn
out,
which is sorta true. D
idn’t really feel like laying the whole sad
C
hallenger+Columbia
story on a
7yr old at bedtime!
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RacinBob
> ranwhenparked
10/23/2020 at 00:22 |
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That’s the problem with “leaders” who don’t have skin in the game. The commit to “goals” and gosh darn it we (you) are making the goals physics be damned.
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RacinBob
> f86sabre
10/23/2020 at 00:34 |
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Thanks for sharing. I learned something else today. Bonus!