Columbia Shuttle

Brad Embleton · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 511 City: Niagara Falls

Has anyone watched the news today?

The shuttle split apart

core-rider · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 531 City: Huntsville, AL

Yeah, they're not giving much info about it. Took me forever to figure out what was going on.

heliboy911 · Guest

Yea... they arn't giving out much info now. Why do they keep talking about the isreal guy? What about the 7 or 8 others?

Rocko · Posted: Feb 01, 2003 7:58 am Post subject:

All I can say is that it's a very sad day. Crying or Very sad

Sarah · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 244 City: Manahawkin

i woke up at 9:00 put the news on to wake up and at 9:17 they inturupted everything and i have been watching it everynow and then its odd how it kinda just disapeard i wonder what happend Shocked

Sean_Brinston · Posted: Feb 01, 2003 8:20 am Post subject:

I went to yahoo.com and and when i got on it sayed 1 minute ago Nasa lost communication with shuttle. It is very sad.

Jello John · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 1936

Sean_Brinston · Posted: Feb 01, 2003 8:34 am Post subject:

Its weird how when the tile fell off, Nasa said it was no biggie, and now its being blammed for this? I dunno i think it was something else not terrorism but i dunno

Jello John · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 1936

JHrod · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 3144

just read that including the ireali a total of 7 people were on the shuttle---the other 6 were all american

Mr. Dumass · Criminal Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 81 City: Texas

It's amazing the faith that astronauts put in the engineers that are in charge of design, inspection, and maintenance. I did a paper on the Challenger tragedy back in school, and the facts where shocking. Turns out that the group of engineers that where in charge of the decision to launch felt that it was unsafe. The management overruled them and gave NASA its approval to launch. Look what happened..... Everyone's always in a rush..... So sad

w8kechick · Criminal Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 71 City: Cincy

I'm at work & a customer came in & told me. It shocked me, I was in 7th grade when the shuttle blew up & I hadn't listened to a take off since then... until last week when I was sitting in traffic because of snow and I turned on am radio to find out why I was sitting in traffic & they interrupted the traffic report for the take off coverage & I listened to it thinking about what had happened when I was younger & as I listened I just kept waiting for something to go wrong... I'm just in shock & very sad about the whole thing. Crying or Very sad

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

The crazy thing about it for me was that I was in Satelite Beach a few weeks ago and saw that shuttle take off.

heliboy911 · Guest

They are blowing this way out of proportion. Especially with the Jewish Guy. Everyday 120 people die in car accidents. Where are the bleeding hearts for them?

Chales · Guest

IT IS NOT TERRORISM. WHOEVER THINKS THIS IS CRAZY. GET REAL.

Just my 2 cents.

Aubs · Motorboat Queen Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9167

this is prolly one of the worst things that has happened in the history of NASA. the scarriest thing to me is those people died doing the job that i want to do. kinda makes u think more...

criminally_minded · Posted: Feb 01, 2003 4:19 pm Post subject:

Aubs: considering the total ammount of people who work for NASA, and the percentage of them who have died on the job, you're probably better off working for them than, say, driving a bus or something.

JHrod · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 3144

aubrey in space----has a nice ring to it but i don't think i would want u driving me through space ----stick to payload and science stuff Wink

j/k

Aubs · Motorboat Queen Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9167

what?? i've wanted to fly shuttles since i was like 5!!!

ohsix · Posted: Feb 01, 2003 5:26 pm Post subject:

K.A · Soul Rider Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 252 City: Florida

yeah alot of debris landed in texas and they have been reporting the people's body parts! definately not something i would want to find!

JHrod · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 3144

wouldn't all the bodies desinigrate from the heat Question

Sean_Brinston · Posted: Feb 01, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject:

Yea most likely everything would disinigarte if the heat got to the inside of it

JHrod · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 3144

well from the way the pics show it break up- i would say that the heat reached the inside

quigglymaster · Posted: Feb 01, 2003 10:05 pm Post subject:

that totally sucks guys. do u think the palastinians had to do anything w/ it b/c there was an israeli on that mission. there was a lot of non-white ppl on that mission. there was an east indian woman and an afro-american guy. but ya. what r the odds?

ohsix · Posted: Feb 02, 2003 10:40 am Post subject:

Aubs · Motorboat Queen Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9167

here's part of an article from from MSN about the astronauts...

PERHAPS THE greatest measure of the space-shuttle program’s success is the ease with which we have taken it for granted. Once, we gathered anxiously in front of our televisions to watch astronauts go into space. Now shuttles go up and come down, and the news sums it up, if at all, with a few seconds of footage before the commercial break.
On Saturday we were cruelly reminded, once again, that leaving Earth, though common, is still anything but commonplace. The seven members of Columbia’s crew certainly had no illusions about the danger of their mission. At 11:39 last Tuesday morning, they gathered for a minute of silence in memory of the Challenger crew, who had died at that moment 17 years before. “They made the ultimate sacrifice, giving their lives and service to their country and for all mankind,” eulogized flight commander Rick Husband.
The same can now be said for Husband and his comrades. Together, they embodied the shuttle program’s ideal of the modern NASA astronaut. They were pilots with Ph.D.s, soldiers who were scientists. Men and women alike. Pilot William McCool sported the buzz-cut hair and fighter-jockey swagger of the “right stuff” days—but he also had advanced degrees in computer science and aeronautical engineering. Born in India, shuttle veteran Kalpana Chawla held a doctorate in aerospace engineering and had logged 6.5 million miles in space. Mission specialist David Brown was a fighter pilot and flight surgeon who worked his way through college riding unicycles in the circus. Ilan Ramon, the mission’s payload specialist, was a seasoned combat pilot and the first Israeli in space.

Steelerguy · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 518

What does NASA stand For?

NEED ANOTHER SEVEN ASTRONAUTS

jason_ssr · Posted: Feb 03, 2003 7:19 am Post subject:

Dude, thats just wrong.

I worked at NASA for a few years, and knew some of the crew members. Im totally bummed.

Jello John · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 1936