"NASA Unsure Where Shuttle Will Land"

[Lisa Denton]

"NASA Unsure Where Shuttle Will Land" CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)

This news headline scared the hell out of me for a minute, until I remembered they land different places sometimes becauseof weather and stuff.

Also it makes NASA look like a bunch of idiots that might be telling the astronauts to "just look for a long straight highway somewheres."

I know sometimes the news peoples will pick a headline to want to make you read the story, but other times they prolly just don't think how it sounds.

Anywho, don't panick, the shuttle astronauts know where the right landin places is, even if NASA says "uh, gosh, we dunno."

 

[rgraham666]

I remember a story I heard from a newspaper person.

Apparently, around Christmas time, a man had his, um, equipment removed by his SO.

The headline read, She Decked The Halls With Balls of Ollie!

 

[R. Richard]

"NASA Unsure Where Shuttle Will Land" CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)

This news headline scared the hell out of me for a minute, until I remembered they land different places sometimes becauseof weather and stuff.

Also it makes NASA look like a bunch of idiots that might be telling the astronauts to "just look for a long straight highway somewheres."

The landing problems mainly occur because of weather in the Cape Canaveral area. The cause of the landing problems is politics. Edwards AFB in the California high desert is the reasonable weather place to do shuttle launches and landings. Edwards AFB also has vast expanses of open ground in case there are landing problems. However, Edwards AFB is a long way from Washington and Cape Canaveral is a better place for political photo ops.

[I used to work at Edwards AFB.]

 

[3113]

However, Edwards AFB is a long way from Washington and Cape Canaveral is a better place for political photo ops.

Do politician still take photo ops with astronauts these days? I think most of America isn't even aware when the shuttle goes up or comes down, let alone where.

 

[rgraham666]

Do politician still take photo ops with astronauts these days? I think most of America isn't even aware when the shuttle goes up or comes down, let alone where.

Unless it come down in pieces over Texas.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Unless it come down in pieces over Texas.

And Arkansaw, and Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Do politician still take photo ops with astronauts these days? I think most of America isn't even aware when the shuttle goes up or comes down, let alone where.

They would, but just lookie how NASA hasn't even decided where they will land yet, hard to set-up a photo op in, maybe here, maybe there.

Lots of peoples watch it take off, I would like to see that sometimes, especially a nighttime launch, I bet its beautiful.

Sometimes they delay the launch for hours or days, but usually its the landin place that they have to change at the last minute for winds and weather.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Unless it come down in pieces over Texas.

I know you are not mean, but I live in texas, heard it blow up that day, thought a tree fell on my house or something cause the roof shook, and I would never joke about it.

I know you wouldn't either if you thought about it.

Now be nice. Did they fix that thingie they were working on up there? Some solar arm or something was stuck. Did you hear if they fixed it?

 

[only_more_so]

Do politician still take photo ops with astronauts these days? I think most of America isn't even aware when the shuttle goes up or comes down, let alone where.

Yeah, I remember when I was a kid we would watch every shuttle launch on TV. Eventually the novelty wore off. Now people only care if things go wrong.

As for NASA... They are really in a bad position. If something goes wrong they look like idiots, if they are so cautious that nothing happens they look like idiots. Basically no matter what they do they look like idiots because of the way the media presents things.

Although it is better than the early days in the soviet union. Apparently Uri Gregarin wasn't the first cosmonaut, he was just the first one to survive the honor. I once heard they lost like 7 guys before they got it right. But when you control the media there are no failures.

 

[only_more_so]

I know you are not mean, but I live in texas, heard it blow up that day, thought a tree fell on my house or something cause the roof shook, and I would never joke about it.

I know you wouldn't either if you thought about it.

Now be nice. Did they fix that thingie they were working on up there? Some solar arm or something was stuck. Did you hear if they fixed it?

Yes, they did fix the solar array. It was having a priapism problem (they couldn't retract it). Apparently the problem was a fray in a cable that was getting caught, so they had to manually pull the cable through past the fray.

A guy I went to church with in Texas told me about a guy he worked with who found parts of the shuttle on his property. The irony was the guy actually helped design the part that he found. I have other friends down there who saw it happen or heard it. Very sad.

TOUCHDOWN!

 

[kiten69]

It made a safe landing...heard the sonic booms as it went overhead...kiddies thought it was the coolest thing next to watching it go up

 

[R. Richard]

Do politician still take photo ops with astronauts these days? I think most of America isn't even aware when the shuttle goes up or comes down, let alone where.

Not so much these days, but back when Cape Canaveral was selected because it was fairly handy to Washington and "Your hard working Congressman is here talking to the brave astronauts who are pushing back the frontiers of space . . ."

 

[Huckleman2000]

Anyone else remember Skylab, the one they really didn't know where it was going to land?

 

[Lisa Denton]

Anyone else remember Skylab, the one they really didn't know where it was going to land?

I think I remember hearing something about that. Isn't that the one they thought pieces as big as a car might hang together through re-entry and impact.

I never did hear where most of it hit, was it the ocean probably.?

I bet a car falling from outer space onto your head would be a REAL bad hair day.

 

[3113]

Ah, yes, Skylab. People knew how to get into the spirit of things then. Some one came up with joke hard-hats with the skylab logo

I never did hear where most of it hit, was it the ocean probably.?

Some remote place in Australia I believe. Australia was not amused

 

[Huckleman2000]

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

Debris was found between Esperance, Western Australia, and Rawlinna, Western Australia, 31–34°S, 122–126°E. One cow was killed. An Australian municipality, the Shire of Esperance, fined the United States $400 for littering. [1] In 2004, the History Channel documentary "History Rocks" stated, in an episode covering major events of 1979, that this fine has never been paid.

Skylab's demise was an international media event, with merchandising, wagering on time and place of re-entry and nightly news reports. The San Francisco Examiner offered a $10,000 prize for the first piece of Skylab to be delivered to their offices. 17-year-old Stan Thornton scooped a few pieces of Skylab off the roof of his home and caught the first flight to San Francisco, where he collected his prize. In a coincidence for the organisers, the annual Miss Universe pageant was scheduled to be held a few days later, on 20 July 1979 in nearby Perth, Western Australia. A large piece of Skylab debris was displayed on the stage.

I didn't realize it was that long ago! Maybe I had it confused with Mir....

 

[S-Des]

Lots of peoples watch it take off, I would like to see that sometimes, especially a nighttime launch, I bet its beautiful.

Kiten said the night launches are absolutely gorgeous. Even though she lives quite far from there, they could see (and hear) the launch from her house. She said they used to go, but they get so crowded now that it's a waste of time (better to find a place further away with an unobstructed view and watch with a telescope). It's something I'd love to see someday as well.

 

[gauchecritic]

usually its the landin place that they have to change at the last minute for winds and weather.

Same reason for dropping that thing on Hiroshima (or was it Nagasaki?)

 

[Huckleman2000]

Same reason for dropping that thing on Hiroshima (or was it Nagasaki?)

I think we have a winning entry for "Most Caustic Comment" for this year.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Excerpt from Wikipedia:


I didn't realize it was that long ago! Maybe I had it confused with Mir....

I remember during the first Gulf War, one news reporter was broadcastiung from Israel. They thought a Scud Rocket was being fired off in the background while he was going through an otherwise mundane report about nothing. It turns out it was a satellite re-entering the atmostphere during his live broadcast.

I laughed my ass off at that.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Same reason for dropping that thing on Hiroshima (or was it Nagasaki?)

It was both, but gauche, seriously, isn't it time to switch to decaf coffee?

 

[Lisa Denton]

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

"Debris was found between Esperance, Western Australia, and Rawlinna, Western Australia, 31–34°S, 122–126°E. One cow was killed. An Australian municipality, the Shire of Esperance, fined the United States $400 for littering. [1] In 2004, the History Channel documentary "History Rocks" stated, in an episode covering major events of 1979, that this fine has never been paid."

Australia tried to fine America for litterin. Crap, this wasn't something we threw out the car window goin down the highway.

I feel sorry for the cow. They should build a statue there for that hero cow, the first cow killed in a interstellar accident, with a nice plaque that reads:

"He boldly went where no cow has gone before"

 

[gauchecritic]

It was both, but gauche, seriously, isn't it time to switch to decaf coffee?

Don't touch coffee, just trying to add some perspective.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Australia tried to fine America for litterin. Crap, this wasn't something we threw out the car window goin down the highway.

I feel sorry for the cow. They should build a statue there for that hero cow, the first cow killed in a interstellar accident, with a nice plaque that reads:

"He boldly went where no cow has gone before"

It's only interstellar if it crosses from one solar system to another.

But yes, the cow should be honored by way of a monument of some kind

 

[Lisa Denton]

Don't touch coffee, just trying to add some perspective.

You are right, as per usual, I never even looked at it from the atomic bomb/space shuttle point of view.

Pass da bong.