Latest Columbia News

Russia is suspending its space tourist program, for fairly obvious reasons. An NYT story notes that the obsolete but reliable computers driving the shuttle are to be examined as part of the inquiry. But most interestingly, a story in Aviation Week claims that a tracking camera trained on the shuttle detected damage to the wing prior to the breakup.

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No, you've got that wrong...

[LordYUK]

"Linux is not Unix"...

GNU isnt Unix.

Re:Did you take Physics in high school

[diablobynight]

First of all they didn't die in space, they died in low orbit, inside Columbia, probably burning alive. Second of all, in low orbit, you have air friction, meaning, that although two cars both doing 250 MPH have the a relative speed of zero to each other, I still don't want to try to tether, from one to the other. Third and finally, you failed to read what I said about not being able to launch a second shuttle on demand. unless weather patterns just happened to be right. Colin Powell remarked once that if they had 20 people dead on a mission in Vietnam, it would not have even warranted a press conference. So really, who cares about 7, that many were born before the press release was out.