I think there are such contingency plans now as well. Maybe none would have worked. However, CNN and MSNBC are reporting a 1994 report anticipating this exact problem with the insulation causing loss of ship and crew.
I'm sure the chances were better if they had tried.
It sounds like perhaps the best thing would have been to change the reentry path, to relieve pressure on the left side. The temperature in the tire well had raised 30-40 degrees, instead of the regular 15 or so, but that's still not much. If there was no protection at all it would have been a lot hotter. So we are talking a crack perhaps?
So maybe they had a chance by taking it easy on that wing. (?)
It's terrible.
I was getting ready for school (college) in 86, I saw it on the TV thirty seconds after it happened, coming back from the shower to my room where I had left the TV on.
Unlike the last guy, I'm not turning off the TV, I'm wallowing. My daughter and I were watching these astronaught on NASA TV in the Shuttle just days ago. No narration, just them working. Sorting paperwork, working on panels, upside down of each other. You have to love how surreal the mixture of the mundane and the alien.
Students had sent up experiments... this is really a national endeavor, the actual people. It's not like the commercial side of space which is also fantastic, it includes people of all ages, of all professions, as citizens we can take part. At least that's how I feel.
It's a real tragedy. Space exploration represents one of the most noble scientific efforts. Socialogically it will, more than any other thing, draw us together as a planet.
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I think there are such contingency plans now as well. Maybe none would have worked. However, CNN and MSNBC are reporting a 1994 report anticipating this exact problem with the insulation causing loss of ship and crew. I'm sure the chances were better if they had tried. It sounds like perhaps the best thing would have been to change the reentry path, to relieve pressure on the left side. The temperature in the tire well had raised 30-40 degrees, instead of the regular 15 or so, but that's still not much. If there was no protection at all it would have been a lot hotter. So we are talking a crack perhaps? So maybe they had a chance by taking it easy on that wing. (?)
Apollo 13 didn't have the right materials to survive either.
you have it 100% correct.
or maybe it's a lot easier to compile apache from source than to make a shirt from a pattern. just a thought.
It's terrible. I was getting ready for school (college) in 86, I saw it on the TV thirty seconds after it happened, coming back from the shower to my room where I had left the TV on. Unlike the last guy, I'm not turning off the TV, I'm wallowing. My daughter and I were watching these astronaught on NASA TV in the Shuttle just days ago. No narration, just them working. Sorting paperwork, working on panels, upside down of each other. You have to love how surreal the mixture of the mundane and the alien. Students had sent up experiments... this is really a national endeavor, the actual people. It's not like the commercial side of space which is also fantastic, it includes people of all ages, of all professions, as citizens we can take part. At least that's how I feel. It's a real tragedy. Space exploration represents one of the most noble scientific efforts. Socialogically it will, more than any other thing, draw us together as a planet.