The shuttles gone.

Mtx · 2003-02-01, 09:32 AM

There's no way the Columbia survived.

MrVicchio · 2003-02-01, 09:41 AM

You are fucking cold hearted mother fucker.

My prayers right now are to thier families. Not Speculation on it being gone..

Navaron · 2003-02-01, 09:48 AM

That's horrible. They just started a program to take up a new teacher. Thats just terrible.

Ludio · 2003-02-01, 10:02 AM

They are both tragedies. 7 people dead and a major blow to the space program. Not much info now though, I wonder how it happened.

Revolution · 2003-02-01, 10:10 AM

WTF are you talking about??!?

Hijinks · 2003-02-01, 10:12 AM

Ludio · 2003-02-01, 10:14 AM

Watch the news. Columbia has blown up.

Hamma · 2003-02-01, 10:18 AM

www.cnn.com

There is no hope heh, its either all or nothing with such a complicated process.

Revolution · 2003-02-01, 10:28 AM

Being a NASA born baby due to my parents............. AH FUCK HORSE SHIT DAMN IT TO HELL thats BULLSHIT!!!!!(sorry staff)

This day was looking good but not anymore......

I would like to send a prayer to all the families and friends of them. And pray for a miricle. They can happen. If you all would do that with me please.

I just checked CNN and BBC but they both did not confirm a disaster, just that they didnt know what happened and debrise. Maybe there is some hope. I dont have TV so I only read whats going on on the net.

I am praying now. If you flame me you should burn in HELL.

Navaron · 2003-02-01, 10:31 AM

NASA declared a disaster. Those guys are dead. It's a shame, but even if they got out before it blewup, they still don't have a chance. It's a bad thing.

Civilian · 2003-02-01, 10:38 AM

It's a pretty awful thing.

I had the misfortune of hearing it explode hear in McKinney. We heard 2 explosions or "booms"(the first likely being an explosion and the second likely being the shuttle's sonic boom) and it shook our windows.

A very sad day indeed.

Revolution · 2003-02-01, 10:41 AM

I just prayed miricles can happen.

As I posted earlier about the celestial planet allignment, I thought it was a good thing, and hope it still is.

MrVicchio · 2003-02-01, 10:42 AM

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
NASA declared a disaster. Those guys are dead. It's a shame, but even if they got out before it blewup, they still don't have a chance. It's a bad thing.

Nav.. it was @200,000 ft AGL going 12,500 mph... you cant bail out up there..

Speculation: Shuttle is OLD and it suffered a complete structural failure.

MrVicchio · 2003-02-01, 10:46 AM

On launch day, a piece of insulating foam on the external fuel tank came off during liftoff and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle.

Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, had assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard.

Taken from Fox News.

Civilian · 2003-02-01, 10:50 AM

According to Frank Kizis, a former NASA engineer(worked with propulsion) If there was enough damage to the Carbon-Carbon on the front of the wing(likely damaged on take-off by the insulation or ice falling from the fuel tanks) it could cause alot of yaw, so much in fact that it could cause the tail to break-off. It's all speculation at this point, but I would guess it has something to do with the insulating foam hitting the wing.