Shuttle Discover doomed? Launch is go.

[jspeicher]

What do you think. Success or catastrophe. They just found a crack they are going to repair on an external tank. My money is on disaster.

 

[Electric Amish]

Just the fact that they are launching is a success in my book. Buncha pansies.

 

[Afrotech]

ill take that bet... I think all will go fine... how much are you putting up?

 

[Jeff7181]

Bah... bondo and duct tape and that baby is ready to fly!

 

[StageLeft]

Shuttles fly all the time. Why it's still newsworthy is beyond me.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Shuttles fly all the time. Why it's still newsworthy is beyond me.

well you know, sometimes they explode and stuff.

 

[jspeicher]

yes, and as of late, things have been falling off and stuff.

 

[ironcrotch]

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Shuttles fly all the time. Why it's still newsworthy is beyond me.

well you know, sometimes they explode and stuff.

and sometimes people choke eating hotdogs.

 

[Mutilator]

Originally posted by: jspeicher
What do you think. Success or catastrophe. They just found a crack they are going to repair on an external tank. My money is on disaster.

The chances of another disaster are about as good as you finding a finger in your Wendy's chili.

 

[preslove]

and sometimes people choke eating hotdogs.

The chances of another disaster are about as good as you finding a finger in your Wendy's chili.

Dude, this thread went weird, quick-like.

 

[conjur]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050406/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle

...NASA spokeswoman Jessica Rye described the flaw as a hairline crack and said that after sending images of it to the tank's manufacturer in Louisiana, the space agency concluded it did not need to make any repairs...

Their track record isn't so hot of late.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Shuttles fly all the time. Why it's still newsworthy is beyond me.

well you know, sometimes they explode and stuff.

And it happens a lot more often with commercial airliners, but we don't read the news when they take off

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: conjur
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050406/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle

...NASA spokeswoman Jessica Rye described the flaw as a hairline crack and said that after sending images of it to the tank's manufacturer in Louisiana, the space agency concluded it did not need to make any repairs...

Their track record isn't so hot of late.

Uhhoooo!

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Shuttles fly all the time. Why it's still newsworthy is beyond me.

well you know, sometimes they explode and stuff.

And it happens a lot more often with commercial airliners, but we don't read the news when they take off

There have only been about 100 shuttle launches and two of those resulted in a catostrophic accident.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Shuttles fly all the time. Why it's still newsworthy is beyond me.

well you know, sometimes they explode and stuff.

And it happens a lot more often with commercial airliners, but we don't read the news when they take off

But commercial airliners fly far more frequently than shuttles. There have been thousands and thousands of commercial air flights, while the shuttle flights number in the dozens.

I'm still all for the shuttle flying again, though. Space flight is inherently dangerous, and the astronauts understand this.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Shuttles fly all the time. Why it's still newsworthy is beyond me.

well you know, sometimes they explode and stuff.

And it happens a lot more often with commercial airliners, but we don't read the news when they take off

there hasn't been a fatality on a U.S. commercial airliner in over 3 years. if they had the accident rate of the shuttle, no one would fly.

 

[Horus]

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Shuttles fly all the time. Why it's still newsworthy is beyond me.

well you know, sometimes they explode and stuff.

And it happens a lot more often with commercial airliners, but we don't read the news when they take off

there hasn't been a fatality on a U.S. commercial airliner in over 3 years. if they had the accident rate of the shuttle, no one would fly.

An airliner has to fly up to 25 thousand feet on a pair/quad of turbine engines. The space shuttle flies into FREAKIN SPACE, behind millions of tons of thrust, and then re-enters the earth's atmosphere, subjecting the skin of the shuttle to several thousand degrees celcius.

Don't compare the two. You can't.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

NASA = Need Another Seven Astronauts. The shuttle is doomed to blow up again sooner or later.

 

[bigj3347]

they're just way too sensitive now after what happened. can't blame them but i think they're a little bit on the cautious side.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Horus


An airliner has to fly up to 25 thousand feet on a pair/quad of turbine engines. The space shuttle flies into FREAKIN SPACE, behind millions of tons of thrust, and then re-enters the earth's atmosphere, subjecting the skin of the shuttle to several thousand degrees celcius.

Don't compare the two. You can't.

Stop talking nonsense. Use some factual facts, not fake facts.

 

[intogamer]

Why can't they just use Nitrous Oxide?

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: intogamer
Why can't they just use Nitrous Oxide?

It's not nirtrous dude. It's NAWZZZZ yo!!

 

[91TTZ]

This thread is very, very misleading.

People are talking as if the tank is cracked. It's not. The foam that's covering the tank is cracked. Huge difference there.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
This thread is very, very misleading.

People are talking as if the tank is cracked. It's not. The foam that's covering the tank is cracked. Huge difference there.

The foam cracking loosing material, which hit the heat shielding is what doomed Columbia. I wonder if painting the exterior tank like they did in the early years would prevent the cracking. Iirc they stopped painting them because it was expensive.

 

[sharkeeper]

The usenet reference to dancing elephants applies to this thread. Make that to the decillionth power. Cubed. Factorial.