NASA loses contact with Space Shuttle

**Lone Wolf2** · 02-01-2003, 01:45 PM

Now there saying that it amy have somthing to do with the tiles on the belly of the shuttle.

**Clare** · 02-01-2003, 02:01 PM

What a tragedy, my heart goes out to each crew member and their friends and families...

**SpongeBobSquarePants** · 02-01-2003, 02:05 PM

Originally posted by irbodden

We weren't talking about body parts...

lol

**langrage** · 02-01-2003, 02:08 PM

Greats loss

Rember people in the states of TX and LA do not touch any wreckage. We are now having reports that people are being sent to the Hospitals down here for touching things. As many as 12 already in Nacadoches.

**SpongeBobSquarePants** · 02-01-2003, 02:11 PM

Originally posted by langrage
Greats loss

Rember people in the states of TX and LA do not touch any wreckage. We are now having reports that people are being sent to the Hospitals down here for touching things. As many as 12 already in Nacadoches.

Do people not watch the news? I heard them say that one CNN this morning 100 times in less then 2 hours. And people are still going out and touching this stuff. All tehy are doing is makeing it worse.

**FutureMagOwner** · 02-01-2003, 02:13 PM

i wasnt talking about you when i mentioned that so quit your pisshead attitude you sound like a six year old.

**Lone Wolf2** · 02-01-2003, 02:13 PM

I'm watchin the nacadoches thing and i guess ppl didnt take them seriously about not touchin.But ill keep em in my prayers.

**Havoc_online** · 02-01-2003, 02:18 PM

Very Very Sad.

They said they knew something fell off during lift-off but they didnt think it would be a problem on re-entry. When there's a doubt, there is no doubt. They should have docked with the space station and gone down with another ship or at least properly inspected everything. Maybe they did but I havent heard anything on that yet. I dunno, just bummed out.

**irbodden** · 02-01-2003, 02:19 PM

Originally posted by FutureMagOwner
i wasnt talking about you when i mentioned that so quit your pisshead attitude you sound like a six year old.

I sound like the 6 year old?

**SpongeBobSquarePants** · 02-01-2003, 02:21 PM

Mite have been talking to me irb, he wasnt really clear

**irbodden** · 02-01-2003, 02:23 PM

Originally posted by SpongeBobSquarePants
Mite have been talking to me irb, he wasnt really clear

LOL

**Tyger** · 02-01-2003, 02:51 PM

I hate sleeping till 2 PM sometimes.

CNN right now is talking about it, and they're showing a press confrence which is live. It's sounding very much like they've lost a lot of the sensors before the accident.

I do have to say that the footage DOES look like a meteorite entering the atmosphere, so its very probably that it was an "Attitude" problem or the like. If it happened durring the "S" turns, they would havebeen in the atmosphere, the high atmosphere, but it's in the air. If it happened

So far, they're only talking about losing measurements and things like that. Mostly left wing hydraulics. They're saying it was at 207,000 feet or so. I have that around 39 miles up. I don't expect any kind of a working 'theory' of what happened for at least a week.

Bill already hit a lot of the toxicity of the orbiter, there's a lot that can go wrong. We all know about the launch, now we're all going to learn about the landings. It's a tragedy, yes, but unfortunately it's something that all involved with know can happen. One of my high schol pysics teachers was a finalist for the "Teacher in Space" programs. After Challenger, she told us that she knew it could happen, and she'd still do it again.

-Tyger

**Koosh** · 02-01-2003, 02:51 PM

LOL!

This is no time to be Laughing Out Loud...

My views of the space program are this. There is nothing but the deepest oceans, darkest jungles, and wide open spaces of the universe left for man to "discover." I had hoped to be an astronaut ever since I was a child, when I "grew up" I had realized that was not the career pather for me, and set my sights differently. I still am very interested in the space program though...

I see it as this. Space is the only place left for man to go. After 1,000 years, if we are still on this rock, what more have we accomplished? There are billions among trillions of stars and galaxy. So large a number that the human brain cannot comprehed it. If the creator (some call him science, others call him God) made this universe so unimaginably huge to ONLY put one planet of life on there, what is the point? Space travel is our future. The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can overcome tragedies like this.

One random tidbit... I don't think it was the heat tiles. The shuttle loses some of them every flight, it would of had to lose alot of them in order for something like this to occur. I also think we should all take a break from the news for a day or two. Right now all the information is speculative, a hard theory now will be hogwash in a few hours... just my opinion though...

This poster has been on the wall in my room for 10 years now, I look at it today with more hope then ever.

**PolishSausage** · 02-01-2003, 03:03 PM

I really can't stand these media idiots...

"In the investigation ahead, what will be your main focus?"

The cause of the explosion you moron!

"Do you think it was a mechanical failure that led to this disaster"

No idiot, we're pretty sure the crew decided to blow themselves up shortly before landing...

**Tyger** · 02-01-2003, 03:22 PM

Originally posted by TheFlamingKoosh

One random tidbit... I don't think it was the heat tiles. The shuttle loses some of them every flight, it would of had to lose alot of them in order for something like this to occur. I also think we should all take a break from the news for a day or two. Right now all the information is speculative, a hard theory now will be hogwash in a few hours... just my opinion though...

It's not just the number of tiles lost in launch, it's a matter of location as well. Again, they're showing the footage of re-entry from the ground cameras, and becasue of how it's brekaing up I can't help but feel like it's a problem based on how the orbiter was angled just based on the breakup footage. Which would also fall into the hydraulics "loss" in the left wing. But, that's not a scientific thing here. Just a gut feeling.

Keep in mind that the orbiter is, for all intents and purposes, a highly polished brick on reentry. It's not a high-performance aircraft, or even a good glider. So it's possible that something can go wrong and it's nt easy to recover from it. Heck, if an OMS fired off accidentally, or the wing stcks, you can't recover from it. Who knows? They might have been hit by debris like a meteorite or a bit of space junk that could have done it. At the speed the orbiter goes in the "S" turns, a wingnut may as well be a wrecking ball. Don't ask how much is floating around up there.

A few pics that kinda get me tho.

Thermal imaging from the National Weather Service with the debris trail.

The crew van coming back fromthe tarmac empty.

-Tyger

NASA loses contact with Space Shuttle

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