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| gvok | Apr 6 2005, 12:21 PM Post #1 |
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| 24thcenstfan | Apr 6 2005, 12:38 PM Post #2 |
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Safety is very important. I will never forget sitting there and watching TV while the Challenger exploded before my very eyes. Imagine being a family member out at Cape Canaveral that day.
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| Admiralbill_gomec | Apr 6 2005, 01:38 PM Post #3 |
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There has been a delay in the rollout. http://www.local10.com/news/4352820/detail.html |
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| digifan2004 | Apr 14 2005, 03:39 PM Post #4 |
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NASA officials had concluded the crack on the foam casing is minor and will pose no danger to the shuttle or the crew. The countdown to the launch had resumed. Wasn't it a similar defect that caused the Challenger diaster more than fourteen years ago? EDIT - This is my five hundredth post! Amazing!
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| Richman | Apr 14 2005, 03:41 PM Post #5 |
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Nope, the Challenger problem was in the 'O' Rings on the rocket boosters...although foam impacting on the heat shield is what caused the Columbia disaster. |
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| Deleted User | Apr 14 2005, 04:08 PM Post #6 |
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Same here. I was too young to remember Challenger, but watching Columbia was awful. |
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| captain_proton_au | Apr 14 2005, 07:14 PM Post #7 |
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Well I'm glad to see them back in action, but what happened to the X-33?, Shuittle design needs to be redone from scratch, the other ones aren too old. (The X-33 is/was the NASA developement prototype as seen in the ENT intro)
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| Richman | Apr 14 2005, 07:19 PM Post #8 |
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The shuttle is definately overdue for a replacement program. If you look at the past NASA programs (Mercury, Apollo...) They all built on eachother and were replaced after a few years; meanwhile, the Shuttle is almost 30 years old. It's time for NASA move forward. |
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| Deleted User | Apr 15 2005, 08:07 AM Post #9 |
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Agreed. You don't keep a car for 30 years (Well, mostly people don't) so why keep something that gets battered every time it takes a trip? |
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| digifan2004 | Apr 18 2005, 11:57 AM Post #10 |
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I think the reason NASA officials kept the current shuttle design is because it had been proven as a highly efficient design. Why mess with something that had been proven with an excellent work record? AAR May 15th is the scheduled launch date for Discovery to return to the ISS. NASA engineers had completed a series of critical tests on the shuttle's safety and fuel systems. IMO I really wish NASA would consider modifying the shuttle prototype and bring the Enterprise into the stars. It would be an excellent tribute to Gene Roddenberry and Trekkies everywhere just in time for the fortieth anniversary of one of the world's most enduring franchises.
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| digifan2004 | Apr 21 2005, 11:38 AM Post #11 |
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Update - The mission to the ISS had been pushed back a week due to the imcompletion of paperwork.
How typical. :rolleyes:
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| digifan2004 | May 28 2005, 09:51 AM Post #12 |
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Now the launch had been scrubbed and push for a July launch date while the shuttle get a new fuel tank. I don't get it. What if the ISS run out of supplies? Who will go up there to help the astronaunts onboard this space station? |
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| Darthsith | May 28 2005, 10:03 AM Post #13 |
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I remember this as well, they had as all watching in school because the first teacher was going into space. We where all in the auditorium watching it on the TVs they put up. |
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| Fesarius | May 28 2005, 10:11 AM Post #14 |
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That was a very sad day indeed. I was at work I believe, and the television was on.... |
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| cptjeff | Jun 5 2005, 11:33 PM Post #15 |
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I had a conversation with the guy in charge of that back in febuary (next genereation shuttle orbiter project) and that design has been scrapped in favor of a smaller design. I posted some of the things that they have going at this point (or as of febuary) and my comments on them.... *digs up link* http://sistertrek.net/index.php?showtopic=7146 enjoy. oh, and to digifan's comment about the Enterprise, that would be possable, but not likely. it would be extermly expensive, and it's pretty likly that the spaceframe has deteriorated soem without any maitainance for the past 20 years, so it would be an extermly expensive propasition to do that, becase you have to go over every square millimetere of every bit of the frame, and skin, replace a lot of it, check and replace the tiles, give the systems a complete overhaul (still 80's tech on there) and functional full powere engines have never been instaled. It would be much cheaper to build a new one, and if you're going to build a new one, go with the new design that needs no external tank, ect. Those add up too. I say take it out of the smithsonian and take it for more tests- use it to test new systems, just keep it in the atnoshere. that would be much cheaper, and it would make sense as far as practiacl testing goes. |
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How typical. :rolleyes:
1:53 PM Jul 11