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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.
FP!
In Soviet Russia the shuttle flies you.
I think the aliens did it....
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
"Linux is not Unix"...
GNU isnt Unix.
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Up there.. in the sky.. it's a bird.. it's a plane.. it's Columbia!
Trolling is a art,
Linux is so Unix like in fact that I would not be able to tell the difference even as an admin dumped at a prompt anymore.
uname -a
> It was controled by gyroscopes.
> Assuming it could handle the temperature
> and lack of pressure, there's no reason
> they couldn't send one out to inspect
> the underside of the shuttle.
Minor nit-pick:
The gyros would still be able to point the robot, but the ISS version used fans for thrusting itself forwards or backwards. A vacuum-based version would need reaction thrusters and their fuel tanks.
Good point, though.
(I'm a coward since I don't want to void my earlier mods.)
Ouch.
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.
Anonymous Cowards - Oh God, How I hate you
Of course, you mentioned that they hired a lawyer, so they're doing the right thing
Johnnie Cochran perhaps?
Space tourism cans you?
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