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Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 2:18 pm
by jrfritz
They don't even know what CAUSED the thing!!!
What are you talking about? Exploding? They don't know the cause or even IF it was exploding!
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 8:31 pm
by mr-t
The Russians would commercialize space - good $$$
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 1:50 pm
by Joey
this is one of those events where you wont forget where you were, what you were doing, etc, at the time you found out about it.
my science teacher said this is what he thinks happened.
he said that during launch, a peice of styrofoam fell out from a place that keeps the ship from burning or something. the styrofoam hit one of the heat shield tiles and knocked it out. that one then hit the one below it and so on, creating a domino effect. no one noticed this. the heat then caught the ship on fire as it dissintigrated coming back to earth.
that is what my science teacher thinks.
this was the first ever problem during a landing though.
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 2:30 pm
by rwfromxenon
...Apollo 13.... was that landing or take-off?
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 2:46 pm
by smartguy240
try orbiting the moon
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 4:00 pm
by beyondsociety
[quoe]...Apollo 13.... was that landing or take-off?
Landing or as put: re-entering the earths atmosphere.
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 1:13 am
by gpm
The problems with Apollo 13 happened for a whole different reason. In that instance, some sort of coil sparked within the oxygen tank when the ship was already in space, causing an explosion that knocked out most of the spaceship's systems.
The big question was whether the heat shield was damaged during the explosion. It might have been, but it wasn't serious enough for the re-entry craft to disintegrate like the Columbia did.
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 8:01 am
by jrfritz
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 9:08 am
by rwfromxenon
Ack, that's wierd
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 7:40 pm
by smartguy240
Allyb wrote:
Ack
You stole that from me theif!
hehe
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 4:21 am
by rwfromxenon
GEEZ I didn't realise I stole that.
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 5:51 am
by mr-t
Oh man. Reminds me of Opposing Force when your tiltrotor gets nuked by that alien bird - ship - transport thing
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 6:23 am
by Oliver
I just want to say that Eigen you got that link from me
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:42 pm
by Mastermind
smartguy240 wrote:
Allyb wrote:
Ack
You stole that from me theif!
hehe
Yo, ;D
Re:space shuttle explodes
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:52 am
by chrisa128
Anyone know anymore now?
War on IRAQ has kinda taken this over on the news and I havn't heard anything on this for a lttle while!