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"Columbia was at an altitude of 200,700 feet over north-central Texas at a 9 a.m., traveling at 12,500 mph when mission control lost contact and tracking data"
If even a single tile of Columbia's heatshield fails at that velocity...
Crap... it's official.
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Registered: Nov 1999
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Us over at the TrekBBS have been keeping taps on this this morning. It looks like NASA will only need to bring out debris recovery crews. Very unfortunate. NASA loses contact with the Columbia
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Registered: Aug 2001
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Oh, damn... damn, damn damn... Not again...
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Registered: Mar 1999
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It's a great shame. Seven people gone (even if they're only talking about the Israeli at the moment). . . And that's the two oldest shuttles gone as well, since Enterprise never flew in space (I think?). . .
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: It's a great shame. Seven people gone (even if they're only talking about the Israeli at the moment). . . And that's the two oldest shuttles gone as well, since Enterprise never flew in space (I think?). . .
The Enterprise never flew in space, just in the atmosphere for flight trials.
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Da_bang80
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Member # 528
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It is a dark day in the history of space travel.
Call me pessimistic, but I think that this may be the beginning of the end for the space shuttles career.
This horrible news is not the kind of thing I like to wake up to.
I'm not a religious person, but I still feel the need to pray for the families of the seven astronauts. and of course the astronauts themselves
I'm stunned... absolutely shocked...
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