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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Grisly as it may be, the loss of an orbiter will probably only help the shuttle program financially, if secondary, psychological effects can be ignored. One less piece of equipment to worry about, more spares for the rest. The missions never turned profit anyway, so the fewer, the better. And as said, the ISS flights will not be affected much. Provided that the cause of the loss can be established, that is. But this does nothing to lessen the human tragedy. My sympathies are on the families and the coworkers. While this probably spells the end of both the more reasonable teachers-in-space and the more frivorous tourists-in-space programs, manned spaceflight will survive. It has to, as nobody can afford to call it quits now. What did go wrong? Apart from the possibility of heat tiles failing, the Columbia carried a potentially explosive EDO package, and was at the stage of return where RCS systems would be firing in rather extreme conditions. Plus the guidance software was in something of a flux, between upgrades - perhaps attitude control was lost due to a software glitch? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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