Columbia Accident Board Preliminary Recommendations

fwc writes "The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) has released some preliminary recommendations to NASA - To do a better job at inspecting the leading edge of the shuttle's wings, and also to ensure that pictures of the orbiter are taken while in orbit. More recommendations are to follow in the full report which is expected in June. More detailed information on the recommendations are at space.com and spaceflightnow.com. NASA Administrator O'Keefe seems optimistic that they will be able to return the shuttle fleet to flight by the end of the year since there has been no show-stopping problems which have been discovered during the investigation."

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Columbia Accident Board Preliminary Post

[Yellow Brick Choad]

CLIT

"Accident?" Doubtful

[Anonymous Coward]

You won't see this on any of the major news networks (surprise, surprise) but there is significant reason to believe that there is a large clandestine Syrian presence within NASA. There is also evidence that the nation of Syria and people acting on its behalf actively worked to sabotage the February Columbia mission. Many of NASA's employees are immigrants and lots of them who are directly involved with the Shuttle program are Syrian. There is also much evidence of disgruntlement among the Syrians with the prospect of the first Israeli astronaut.

Write your congressman and President Bush and make the following things clear:

• We will not tolerate acts of terrorism from the nation or people of Syria
  
• We will take action when our national treasures (in particular, our space program) are attacked
  
• We will not tolerate rogue states with active chemical and biological weapons programs
  
• We cannot allow an outlaw nation to harbor Iraqi fugitives and war criminals

Syria has long been a staging ground for nefarious acts of all shapes and sizes. It's time that we let them know that this must come to an end.

Is a fucking conspiracy

[Anonymous Coward]

to make everyone sympathetic to that jew who was on board, or maybe they had some nuclear weapons on board, or maybe it was a just a distraction from the heat Bush was getting for the world war he's started.

Noticed everyone rallied round the flag for these poor seven people who died on a nice little space flight, but nobody gives a fuck about the thousands of people who starve every year, or the people that got killed and maimed by USA bombs in Iraq. Yeah, good priorities. Fuckwits.

Interesting thought: Build new shuttles!

[Angry White Guy]

Face it, they're rocketting around in technology that's 25+ years old. It's time to redesign from the ground up.

The U.S. just paid 75 billion on a war in Iraq, most of which was wasted money. I mean the fuel bill alone to send an aircraft carrier to the Gulf would set me for life.

Maybe they don't spend more money on Nasa is because in space there's nobody to kill.

Damn Mods

[Anonymous Coward]

I was hoping for a Flaimbait on this one. Oh well, maybe next time!