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LOLBelegon said:
Or the Mercury watches when I was there age.
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The new camera views were waycool and stuff.
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You bein in Texas and all, Debbie, I suspect you know alot of the astronauts real well.Rideme Cowgirl said:The new camera views were waycool and stuff.
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Any good gossip?
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Ted-E-Bare said:
They tip really good and stuff specialy before they go to a mission and they have a big party but a most of em are married and a lot of them are too old for me but thats ok and stuff cause I know dating a dancer like me might get them thrown out of their job and stuff so I don't mind The Navy guys are the really crazy ones.
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oggbashan
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When I was young we worried about V2 rockets being launched to fall on our houses.
When my father was young he worried about Zeppelins and aircraft bombing our houses. He was right to worry. The family were bombed out in WW1.
Best wishes to the shuttle and all those who fly in her.
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When my father was young he worried about Zeppelins and aircraft bombing our houses. He was right to worry. The family were bombed out in WW1.
Best wishes to the shuttle and all those who fly in her.
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Salvor-Hardon
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Being a son of a beach from Florida, so many of my memories are shuttle related. When Enterprise did the test flights off the 747, The first shuttle launch seeing it sit so still before roaring to life. The Challenger explosion, I can still go to the spot where I heard the news and it makes me shiver. The Columbia tragedy and the thought that the shuttles really were 20 years old or more and yet still so magical in so many ways.
God speed Discovery.
God speed Discovery.
SeaCat
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It was indeed a great launch to watch. The wife and I drove north early this morning with plenty of supplies and our video camera. (I remembered to bring the tripod this time.) We arrived at where the causeway used to be, (it was destroyed by the huricanes.) and had set up by six this morning. (I was amazed at the number of RV's parked up there. The owners having drove up the night before and slept in.) We had parked in such a way that we were next to the water with our car right behind us. When it got too hot we could sit in the car and fire up the AC to cool off. I had a clear shot across the water to the launch tower and the shuttle. What a view it was through the camera. I managed to tape and track the launch all the way up through solid rocket seperation. (We had also set up the VCR's at home to tape it off both CNN and the local education channels. That way we could get the parts beyond our vision.)
As much as many people argue the space program is a waste of money I still get the chills watching a launch and am hoping that this flight goes off without a hitch. (I'm also hoping we soon get cheap commercial space flight. I look forward to trying sex in zero-G.)
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As much as many people argue the space program is a waste of money I still get the chills watching a launch and am hoping that this flight goes off without a hitch. (I'm also hoping we soon get cheap commercial space flight. I look forward to trying sex in zero-G.)
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Shuttle Debris Fuels NASA's Fears
Associated Press
05:06 PM Jul. 26, 2005 PT
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- In uneasy reminders of the Columbia accident, a thermal tile apparently got chipped and other debris whirled around Discovery as it rumbled toward space Tuesday, but it wasn't clear if the shuttle's sensitive skin had been jeopardized.
A 1 1/2-inch-wide bit of tile captured on camera appeared to fly off the shuttle's belly, on the edge of a door that encloses the nose landing gear. It was not clear if the tile had been struck by anything. Pieces of tile, which protect the shuttle from searing heat on return to Earth, have been lost on past flights without preventing a safe homecoming.
"We're going frame-by-frame through the imagery," said John Shannon, a NASA operations manager.
Also, NASA video revealed what appeared to be a sizable piece of material -- maybe a chunk of insulation -- coming off the shuttle's external fuel tank two minutes into flight. It did not strike the orbiter that carries the seven astronauts, the NASA manager said. Other agency footage showed covers flying off Discovery's thrusters -- something expected to happen.
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Sounds like the Shuttle is dropping more parts than a Yugo.
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Associated Press
05:06 PM Jul. 26, 2005 PT
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- In uneasy reminders of the Columbia accident, a thermal tile apparently got chipped and other debris whirled around Discovery as it rumbled toward space Tuesday, but it wasn't clear if the shuttle's sensitive skin had been jeopardized.
A 1 1/2-inch-wide bit of tile captured on camera appeared to fly off the shuttle's belly, on the edge of a door that encloses the nose landing gear. It was not clear if the tile had been struck by anything. Pieces of tile, which protect the shuttle from searing heat on return to Earth, have been lost on past flights without preventing a safe homecoming.
"We're going frame-by-frame through the imagery," said John Shannon, a NASA operations manager.
Also, NASA video revealed what appeared to be a sizable piece of material -- maybe a chunk of insulation -- coming off the shuttle's external fuel tank two minutes into flight. It did not strike the orbiter that carries the seven astronauts, the NASA manager said. Other agency footage showed covers flying off Discovery's thrusters -- something expected to happen.
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Sounds like the Shuttle is dropping more parts than a Yugo.
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dreampilot79
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One can only wish them godspeed.
My personal memories are from the inside. I never worked on the shuttle program but I spent several years inside the (military) space program. After having written an accident report involving fatalities with military space heavy lift vehicle and having been on the launch pad when Columbia exploded. I have a more circumspect perspective of the space program.
There has never been a more important vehicle built... nor one more dangerous (with the possible exception of the Saturn IV used in the lunar program). I truly believe that it is nearly vital for us to return to the heavens. It is critical to us to learn about our stellar neighborhood and for us on the ground, the stimulous to our technology is only rivaled by the technological push of war. (and who can live without technology...especially spell checkers).
NASA can never eliminate the risks associated with riding a vehicle that is propelled by more energy than a mid sized nuclear bomb. The risks are there and will be there weather a new space transportation system is built or not. Rocket fuel will always be a dangerous thing. Space will always be a deadly enviornment. Re-entry can only be made safer if one conserves a huge amount of fuel (weight) to soften the speed of falling into the atmosphere. Flying into space will always be dangerous. If we continue to fly into space, Columbia will not be the last.
I can only pray for the crew and yell from the bell tower..."Thank God.. We're flying again!!!!!!!"
My personal memories are from the inside. I never worked on the shuttle program but I spent several years inside the (military) space program. After having written an accident report involving fatalities with military space heavy lift vehicle and having been on the launch pad when Columbia exploded. I have a more circumspect perspective of the space program.
There has never been a more important vehicle built... nor one more dangerous (with the possible exception of the Saturn IV used in the lunar program). I truly believe that it is nearly vital for us to return to the heavens. It is critical to us to learn about our stellar neighborhood and for us on the ground, the stimulous to our technology is only rivaled by the technological push of war. (and who can live without technology...especially spell checkers).
NASA can never eliminate the risks associated with riding a vehicle that is propelled by more energy than a mid sized nuclear bomb. The risks are there and will be there weather a new space transportation system is built or not. Rocket fuel will always be a dangerous thing. Space will always be a deadly enviornment. Re-entry can only be made safer if one conserves a huge amount of fuel (weight) to soften the speed of falling into the atmosphere. Flying into space will always be dangerous. If we continue to fly into space, Columbia will not be the last.
I can only pray for the crew and yell from the bell tower..."Thank God.. We're flying again!!!!!!!"
Colleen Thomas
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I don't like the shuttles. An inherent danger is that they are reused and get old. I know it saves money, but their limited ability to actually get out into the cosmos, coupled with the reality they are like any airplane and subject to stress and fatigue makes them scary to me. It seems with a system like that, it isn't a question of if, but a questrion of when, something will go catastrophicly wrong.
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