Author Topic: shuttle launch on nasa tv (Read 1268 times)

nirvana · « **Reply #15 on:** July 02, 2006, 03:09:57 AM »

The news anchors on CNN were also extremely frightened that something else would fall off and damage the shuttle again. Do you believe them?

CNN

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 02, 2006, 03:41:54 AM »

Challenger

Golfer · « **Reply #17 on:** July 02, 2006, 09:43:37 AM »

Challenger wasn't struck by anything but good try.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #18 on:** July 02, 2006, 09:46:54 AM »

[upper crust English accent] I'd say it was struck by a dose of misfortune.[/upper crust English accent]

I think matrix dude was just posting for information....

Kurt · « **Reply #19 on:** July 02, 2006, 09:49:55 AM »

Yeah, the media has been a joke the last few years... The other day on CNN they had a head line 'Shuttle crew has 1-100 chance of death' something like that..

What they don't bother to tell you is that when the shuttle entered service Nasa officially put the odds at 1 in 40... So the survivablity has actually more than doubled.... Stupid CNN.

Anyhow, Raider is correct, there was a problem with a thruster (not a booster) they were having trouble keeping one of the thrusters properly heated and were seeking a waiver for that (I think it was granted) so they could fly without it... The RCS thrusters are redundant, and the loss of one is not a threat to the flight... Just a technical problem.

But of course the wx was the main reason for the scrub. I'm sure they'll fix up that thruster with the extra time they have.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 02, 2006, 01:49:21 PM »

Columbia

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 02, 2006, 02:08:10 PM »

Shuttle luanch was scrubed for today but it is ironic that it is luanching on July 4th

Golfer · « **Reply #22 on:** July 02, 2006, 02:14:20 PM »

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Originally posted by RAIDER14
Shuttle luanch was scrubed for today but it is ironic that it is luanching on July 4th

It's just a coincidence.

"Irony is the misuse of the word ironic" - Some character from a TV/Movie/Thing on the tube I can't remember...which is kinda funny.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 02, 2006, 02:18:50 PM »

Shuttle Luanch postponed due to bad weather

nirvana · « **Reply #24 on:** July 02, 2006, 04:33:53 PM »

What point atr you trying to make Raider? Columbia exploded on takeoff, Challenger exploded on reentry....are you trying to tell us to be wary or that the shuttle is an unsafe, cruel and unusual enviornment?

Chairboy · « **Reply #25 on:** July 02, 2006, 05:53:31 PM »

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Originally posted by nirvana
What point atr you trying to make Raider? Columbia exploded on takeoff, Challenger exploded on reentry....are you trying to tell us to be wary or that the shuttle is an unsafe, cruel and unusual enviornment?

Actually, you've got those backwards. Challenger failed on takeoff, Columbia on re-entry.

Second, neither exploded. Challenger detached from the external fuel tank and hit the airstream at the wrong angle and was torn apart by the multi-mach wind shear.

Columbia also didn't explode, it broke apart on re-entry because plasma burned through the structure. In the end, it was aerodynamic shear that tore it apart too, just like Challenger.

All of this doesn't change the fact that the Shuttle is missionless, super expensive, overly complicated, and an experimental vehicle being sold to the public as an operational launcher. It has a worse safety record than the Soyuz, the russian launcher, and is 10x as expensive too.

nirvana · « **Reply #26 on:** July 02, 2006, 08:55:45 PM »

I stand corrected, my apologies.

xNOVAx · « **Reply #27 on:** July 02, 2006, 09:07:28 PM »

This thing is going to be what NASA should have built 25 years ago..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_V

Eagler · « **Reply #28 on:** July 02, 2006, 09:15:23 PM »

weather will probably delay it tomorrow. nasty weather has been kicking up in the afternoon. if it were a morning launch, it'd have a chance ..

Kurt · « **Reply #29 on:** July 03, 2006, 12:28:15 AM »

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Originally posted by xNOVAx
This thing is going to be what NASA should have built 25 years ago..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_V

Yeah, but they needed the equipment they gained in the shuttle program to build it, so I guess one feeds the others. You can't just build the perfect spaceship... You learn it.

Everyone is so down on Nasa and the shuttle... many young people here who don't remember all the shuttle success stories I suppose.

Space is HARD. Nasa hasn't killed its last astronaut. How many died to get the airliners we have today? Why do you expect space flight to be easier?

Cut them some slack. I guarantee that the nasa controllers know much more about it than anyone here in the AH board.

If you're an American show a little pride in what we have done in space, and what we can do..

And if you're not an American, and you're not a Russian... Shut the hell up, because you haven't flown any one without borrowing equipment or knowledge from the U.S. or Russia. (an exclusion for China here... They did get it done... 30 years later.)

The U.S. and Russia (and now China) have every right to show great pride in their accomplishiments in space. Everyone else is just preaching from a leather chair.