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Offline DiabloTX

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« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2007, 06:54:37 PM »
Awesome as usual!

YAYYY Space City!!
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Offline Slash27

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« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2007, 07:08:33 PM »
missed it!:furious
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Offline DieAz

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« Reply #17 on: June 08, 2007, 07:09:33 PM »
lol barely caught it live, 45 seconds to liftoff. when I started watching it.

good launch :-)
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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #18 on: June 08, 2007, 08:33:52 PM »
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 Mr Anderson will not be coming home with the Atlantis astronauts.
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« Reply #19 on: June 08, 2007, 10:45:20 PM »
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I was in 8th grade when happened and I'll never forget that day as long as I live.


I was standing by my jet waiting for the aircrew to show for a morning launch at Homestead AFB, FL when it happened.

When the Captain and his wingman stepped out of the expediter truck they were talking about it.

I remember the Capt saying it was probably some trigger-happy jet jock out of Patrick AFB that took it out while yelling "FOX TWO! FOX TWO!".

Morbid.

After they taxied out I went to our break room and watched the replay and aftermath on TV with a bunch of pilots and maintenance troops.

Everyone was stunned.

Godspeed STS-117!

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Sun
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« Reply #20 on: June 09, 2007, 05:33:02 AM »
Aw crap.  More foam debris and a rip in a launch blanket.

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« Reply #21 on: June 09, 2007, 05:43:57 AM »
The launch blanket would seem to be no big deal, as long as it does not further rip off.   It is a blanket and not tiles because that is a low heat area during re-entry.

Perhaps a space walk to tuck it back in during the walk for the ISS truss.
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« Reply #22 on: June 09, 2007, 05:49:18 AM »
Let's hope so.  Remember they thought the debris strike on Columbia wasn't too serious either.  Nor frozen o-rings in the SRB's on a below freezing morning back in '86.
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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #23 on: June 09, 2007, 06:00:12 AM »
The original Columbia Mission, with Young and Crippen, had some tiles come off the exhaust bell cowlings and they were able to come home safely.

You can see it on the starboard cowling...  


This blanket on Atlantis being an area that does not have enough heat to have tiles installed says to me that this is a minor problem, easily fixed.
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« Reply #24 on: June 09, 2007, 07:43:03 AM »
The drive home sucked, but this was worth it.  :)







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« Reply #25 on: June 09, 2007, 07:58:00 AM »
so archaic compared to what some of the other civilizations have out there in the universe.  we need to start upgrading our shiznit.
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« Reply #26 on: June 09, 2007, 11:38:53 AM »
Last time I had a rip in my Launch Blanket was with Mary Lou and reliazed I didn't have my fly opened... or others clinging on to life.

Gods Speed

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« Reply #27 on: June 09, 2007, 11:48:52 AM »
I MISSED IT D*&%@!!!!!!!!!

when is supposed to come back????
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« Reply #28 on: June 09, 2007, 02:14:55 PM »
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