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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 08:37 PM Original message |
NASA decides against shuttle repair in orbit |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. strap in and hold your breath. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 08:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Pucker time nt |
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pretty_lies (155 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
3. If They Can Repair The Hole, Why The Hell Not Do It? |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Can't risk damaging any more tiles |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 10:39 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. You're right, they are sensitive |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 11:14 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I heard Chris Hadley (Canadian astronaut) talking about them |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 11:18 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. He works at Lockheed Martin |
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NoodleyAppendage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
4. May have been more dangerous to repair. Spacewalk to underside of shuttle...pretty risky. |
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TheOtherMaven (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 09:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Scary.... |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 09:51 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Trouble is |
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NoodleyAppendage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 12:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Didn't realize that. I'd bet with the engineers any day. The Admin are pencil-pushers. |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
7. NASA has said the repairs were only to prevent additional work on the ground |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-16-07 10:35 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. We can only hope they're right. |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 06:42 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. The space shuttle was a waste of NASA funding. That space "truck" never |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
11. Telling quote from the article.... |
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Phoonzang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
12. I'm not normally superstitious |
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ChickMagic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
13. On Columbia |
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RL3AO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 11:16 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Yeah. It doesn't get nearly as hot where this tile is as with the wing and nose. |
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TheLastMohican (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-17-07 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
19. That's a Russian Roulette |
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