Columbia Coverage

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 5, 2003 @03:30AM from the thunder-on dept.

ke4roh writes "Space.com offers a list of questions and answers about the events and hardware surrounding Columbia's destruction Saturday. They address suspected causes, foam, tile, and some of the alternatives had NASA known the ship would not be able to re-enter the atmosphere." viewstyle writes "PC Magazine has a pack of stuff put together on the space shuttle accident, as they recognized the fact that the space program inspired a lot of tech people in general. What's pretty cool is the section written by a guy there who worked on the computer components in the shuttle." And naturally, the idea of a space elevator is back in vogue again.

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Glowing Purple Rope Of Light by ThreeToe · 2003-02-05 14:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

As reported in SF Gate, an amateur astronomer and shuttle buff happened to capture an amazing photograph of a glowing purple rope of light descending down toward the shuttle. Don't know how authentic this story is, but it sure is interesting:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ a/2003/02/05/MN192153.DTL
-ThreeToe
-(two killed in battle with raging typhoon)