Well the world will NEVER know now will they? (Reply #22)

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Response to TrogL (Reply #17)

Thu Jan 31, 2013, 09:38 PM

benld74 (9,582 posts)

22. Well the world will NEVER know now will they?

AND with the schedule pushing those on the ground, THEY didnt properly think it out UNTIL NOTHING could be done!

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53 replies	Author	Time	Post
Columbia Shuttle Crew Not Told of Possible Problem With Reentry [View all]	Purveyor	Jan 2013	OP
If I were a member of the crew, I'd want to know...	Cooley Hurd	Jan 2013	#1
I wouldn't want to know........	TheDebbieDee	Jan 2013	#15
Oh my gawd.	Control-Z	Jan 2013	#2
As was I when I heard it on ABC Radio News at the top of the hour. eom	Purveyor	Jan 2013	#3
It's a right...	Jerry442	Jan 2013	#4
I would want to know so we could start working on a solution, like maybe using the	DhhD	Jan 2013	#5
Documents detail shuttle what-ifs	Wilms	Jan 2013	#25
The destruction of Columbia was due to utter incompetence	Kelvin Mace	Jan 2013	#6
+1	ellisonz	Jan 2013	#21
It...	deathrind	Jan 2013	#7
Well I never heard about this until today. eom	Purveyor	Jan 2013	#9
Wow!	SouthernDonkey	Jan 2013	#8
One of my friends and co-workers was on that flight.	lapfog_1	Jan 2013	#10
Wow	iandhr	Jan 2013	#11
This has been known for several years	Ian Iam	Jan 2013	#12
It has? I remember a lot of speculation being bandied about......	TheDebbieDee	Jan 2013	#16
The truly damning information begins at the 41.03 mark	Ian Iam	Jan 2013	#20
Difference between known and demonstrable. /nt	TheMadMonk	Jan 2013	#30
I don't believe there's anything new here.....	groundloop	Jan 2013	#13
Just like there was NOTHING that could be done with Apollo 13?	benld74	Jan 2013	#14
What, exactly, do you propose they do?	TrogL	Jan 2013	#17
Uh.. you gotta be kidding me.	Flying Squirrel	Jan 2013	#19
Well the world will NEVER know now will they?	benld74	Jan 2013	#22
Apollo 13, not Apollo 11.	longship	Jan 2013	#27
Send up another shuttle with just a pilot and rescue suits.	TheMadMonk	Feb 2013	#31
There wasn't time.	jeff47	Feb 2013	#33
What's Justin Bieber got to do with this.	daleo	Feb 2013	#34
He's what passes for a modern day hero.	TheMadMonk	Feb 2013	#37
Music industry has been inventing heroes forever	daleo	Feb 2013	#48
No shuttle to send	TrogL	Feb 2013	#46
Anyone recall why temporary stays at	ManiacJoe	Jan 2013	#18
Different orbit.	Xithras	Jan 2013	#23
I think Columbia did not have docking capability too. nt	XRubicon	Jan 2013	#26
Had transfer been a real possibility, it wouldn't have mattered.	Xithras	Feb 2013	#36
Completely different orbits, wouldn't have had enough fuel to reach. nt	DRoseDARs	Jan 2013	#24
Hooray for me.	rocktivity	Jan 2013	#28
Duly noted. +1 eom	Purveyor	Jan 2013	#29
What a twat	Scairp	Feb 2013	#32
gee...zuss...	cntrfthrs	Feb 2013	#35
I think I'd rather personally not know -- but I sure wouldn't feel I could make that	gateley	Feb 2013	#38
Telling Them	RobinA	Feb 2013	#44
Agree. Maybe that should have been something discussed before the launch?	gateley	Feb 2013	#47
what lousy reporting.	blackspade	Feb 2013	#39
Columbia was too heavy to reach ISS	LunaSea	Feb 2013	#40
Thanks for the link...	blackspade	Feb 2013	#45
What's the news? I thought that was a LONG foregone conclusion...	Blue_Tires	Feb 2013	#41
Why isn't a rescue space shuttle ever an option?	WestCoastLib	Feb 2013	#42
Seems to me like that was an option in the earlier flights where they wouldn't launch unless	Purveyor	Feb 2013	#43
NASA's prime mission is not safety.	Psephos	Feb 2013	#49
"He's a pilot! You tell him the condition of his craft!" (Line 33944)	24601	Feb 2013	#50
Remind me again who was pResident when this was allowed to happen?	Ian David	Feb 2013	#51
Columbia Dies over Texas - story by radio host Thom Hartmann	Ian David	Feb 2013	#52
What happened to NASA's motto	liberal N proud	Feb 2013	#53

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