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- jsk2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0[crazy conspiracy theory]
NASA is just a giant cover up for all the money they are spending. Those shuttles cost about the same as a hummer to build. The rest of the money goes to a CIA project set to brainwash the American people into actually thinking the Hot Coffee mod is bad.
[/crazy conspiracy theory] - bloodguard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OSHA needs to step in and shut these guys down before they kill again.
Then we can give the $$$,$$$,$$$,$$$.00 that NASA blows to Burt Rutan and get a fleet of real spaceships. - thingstodo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it didn't "send nasa scrambling on Sunday" - they have noticed the problem since Thursday!!!
- imtigger2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BILLIONS spent on our space program (which I'm all FOR by the way)... and we use tape, glue and foam on our space vehicles!? What do they expect sending an oversized balsa-wood "kids" model kit into space? The first time I heard about foam 'tiles' being glued to the outside of the shuttle, and that being the protection layer for the ship... it blew me away. Unfortunately, it blew away some astronauts as well. With all the materials available, is this all they've got?
- chrisdelta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Retire the shuttle now - divert the money to the moon-mars effort.
- Interpol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hope it's nothing serious.
- DJMac317, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oy, I wonder why we don't have any new ships.
- bloodrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the ship are to dam old to be flying anymore. but nasa is to cheap to build new one or a diffent model.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0my aunt works at nasa. some of her friends died on columbia, and her experiments are on discovery. she must be so worried...
- zoli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0about those other 112 flights: "NASA has successfully landed space shuttles 112 times previously, despite sometimes extensive heat shield damage.
"The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews," Hale said."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20050801/ts_nm/space_shuttle_dc - Logik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0all this is paranoia because of the media. this has happened before and it hasn't been that big of an issue. after columbia, the media is all over them, and now they look so far into things that there's no doubt they'll find every tiny thing wrong.
these people are going to space.. get it? SPACE. it isn't like jumping around here on earth. it's a risk, the astronauts know this, the people on this planet however don't get it. you can't rule everything out. people WILL die, all we can do is try to make it happen less often.
next.. rutan designed a plane that simply gets to the brink of space... the very beginning of it. it goes like what.. 3000mph or so. you need to go about 17,000mph to get where the space shuttle is going. sorry, rutan doesn't have what it takes to get there. he's tinkering and nasa is actually doing it. no offense to you guys who believe in rutan, but he's playing a totally different game and you just don't understand. - Terry2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You said Nickelsax. I totally agree. I think the current shuttles still have much use left in them. The NASA budget has been cut so dramatically that a new system is not possible until funds are given for it .. and the war in Iraq is costing us a kazillion times more than the space program.
- NickelSax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This not a "NEW" problem... the have discovered this problem before on many of the 111 flights before that landed safely. Yes they are sticking out more than they have in the past BUT in the past they found and measured them AFTER the shuttle SAFELY landed back on Earth, and thus could have stuck out just as much as this time, but burned off a bit in re-entry. Rememebr they are being OVER-causus this time around and checking things they never checked, or never reported widely on the 111 shuttle trips that landed SAFELY.
How many of the 114 shuttle trips did foam fall off the tank? Probally most of them, bt one time caused damage.
How many hit a bird? Probally most of them, but once caught on cammera.
How many had proturtions? Nasa says MANY, but this is the first time they went out in space, saw them and measured them, the rest of the times, it was once they SAFELY landed back home.
Space Flight is risky, and thee is always going to be risk, and we should try to reduce that risk, BUT we can never elimitate all risk.
Yes we need a new program, as the orbitors are more expensive to fly and take longer to turn arround and put back up than orginally invisioned, and they have been in service for a long time. But they still have some use left, and we should use them, until we have a new craft, and maybe a bit longer if the new craft can't do all the orbitors can. - zoli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree with "imtigger2" above, this is pathetic, instead of fooling around with foam, tape, glue and toy models for billion$, it's time to dump the old junk, and get a real space-age vehicle ... which, incidentally is what the Russians and even a British private business are doing. Details here: http://digg.com/science/Time_to_Dump_the_Shuttle
- scott88008, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But the worst thing about the Shuttle is it doesn't even have a screen.
- bonlebon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0maybe they are taking every issue too serious, and who doesn't after what have happened, the shuttle maybe had all those problems in the past and nobody cared about them, shuttles as planes are bound to crash, fail, you name it, ol' Murphy was right for sure.
- nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0silly nasa, trix r for kids.
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