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Anyone watching the Space Shuttle Columbia special on ABC?

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Man, that is tough to watch. Having lost my father in a plane crash it makes me start tearing up. The pain those people went through, their colleagues, and their families is so terrible. I don't even know why I am watching it.

🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁
 
Damn she made a home video for her 8 year old son named Ian(I was 8 and I am named Evan). Man that is some tough stuff. Poor kid...
 
thats totally sad, was it military or commercial plane how much do they compensate you? My life is worth millions for my family
 
Originally posted by: Wduaqnug
thats totally sad, was it military or commercial plane how much do they compensate you? My life is worth millions for my family
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Corporate plan. His life didn't have a price tag. It was priceless... 🙁
 
who's hosting the show?

I saw an ABC guy on Larry King the other night talking some wild stuff about the Columbia Shuttle investigation. Basically, even if they had caught the problem during the launch, they would have had to address the issue immediately, turning the oxygen consumption down to a minimum, and NASA would have had to immediately rushed Atlantis to the launchpad so it could just barely make it up in time to save the Columbia crew. There were a few other factors that would have had to had happened "just perfectly" to save the crew.

It gave me a shiver just hearing what he knew. Probably because there "was" a chance, no matter how slim

 
Right, because Columbia (stupidly) launched without the necessary fuel or docking equipment to mate with the ISS, the only means of long-term survival in space. For that matter, she did not even have EVA suits and the robotic arm onboard.

IMO the Shuttle should never launch without a contingency plan. Never. Even from an economical point of view, there's no way that the cost savings related to less weight and less fuel carried can total up to the amount spent on training those six astronauts + the cost of replacing the orbiter and all equipment contained within + the search that went on in and around Texas to find all of the hazardous debris.
 
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