More on Columbia

RodeoBoy writes "It seems that regardless of what NASA and Boeing wants the public to believe there are still questions about damage to the shuttle's left wing. Some Boeing engineers have raised concerns that proper analysis of the damage was not done at the time, due to changes and cutbacks in Boeing. It is also coming out that more than one chunk of foam might have hit and damaged the wing. With Boeing having some financial troubles and NASA under public scrutiny again, what is the future of the space shuttle program..."

Comments

Re:Say what?

[Tackhead]

> Because NASA *knew* about the foam collision from day one, and they had more than a *week* to analyze the event, and they *concluded* that it had no effect on the safe operation of the shuttle. If foam is the cause of the disintegration, then 7 people died because NASA's analysis was wrong. How's that for public image?

s/7 people/7 more people/g

You forgot about the last time NASA's "analysis" killed 7 astronauts and destroyed a $2B orbiter. "O-Rings? Suuuuuuure, they'll hold up when frozen solid! Ignore what our engineers have said about it because we've delayed this launch too long, we've gotta launch the damn thing or we'll start looking bad! Columbia, go with throttle-up!"

NASA: Needs Another Seven Astronauts - because if what appears to have happened with Columbia is indeed the case, they haven't learned a fucking thing since 1986.

Re:Spiro Agnew Is My Cousin

[PjotrP]

oh yes of course, anything the rest of the world does is motivated by our desire to stop the splendour that is the US economy. The jealousy is enormous... over here in Europe we dont have any black - white racial problems anymore as everybody has turned green with envy.

It is why people fly planes into big skyscrapers...
It is why Saddam excepted those chemical weapons from the US...
It is why we made the Kyoto thing...
It is why Germany and France are still against killing millions of Iraqi's...
It is why we laughed when Bush said funny things like "misunderestimate" and "sublimmmmennllll messages"...
It is why third world countries stay poor, as the envy gets in the way of people doing anything productive...
And... It's why the rest of the world is constantly hoping spaceshuttles explode in orbit...