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Images of Endeavour's Damaged Tiles
Roland Piquepaille writes "Neptec Design Group, a Canadian company and a NASA prime contractor for 25 space missions, was kind enough to send me exclusive images of Endeavour's damaged tiles during its last take-off. So here are some of these pictures" The pictures are pretty amazing and make the urgency of this whole thing much more amazing.
That worked so well for Columbia.
"it will be the end of NASA."
Good. Space exploration is more important than a few casualties. If we must lose a Shuttle to dump that idiotic program, than that's what it takes. It's time we got rid of the desire to shove humans out in front of unmanned systems, but people are stupid so it may take a bloody nose.
NASA can turn into something else, because the people running it have the wrong priorities.
We don't need meat in space right now because it is a drag on techno-evolution.
Manned systems must have slow development cycles which cripples their ability to evolve quickly. We can RAPIDLY improve unmanned systems, evolve technology quickly, then entertain ourselves with meat in space at leisure.
If we were results-oriented instead of entertainment-oriented we'd go slower and as a result, get there with quality systems.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Give the engineers better computers that they didn't have 30 years ago so they can create a much more sophisticated design?
Hmmmm the USA has a brain damaged scumbag junkie for a president. It's corporations rob the world. It's military are just low paid gun toting hacks for the corporations. It's media are stupid enough to work for the bucks and not the principles. And it's shuttle is an over priced piece of junk. The Next American Space Race will be with a bottle, a rocket and a box of matches. Duhhhhhhhhh. Most Americans in chatrooms are just wankers anyway.