Re: More one NASA management
From: JohnTromaville (johntromaville@aol.com)
Date: 02/06/03
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From: johntromaville@aol.com (JohnTromaville) Date: 06 Feb 2003 18:10:49 GMT
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> Its space they had the suits. It only takes rope and courage it
>was an emergency. They don't need handes they were not cripples.
>Hell they where the ones who could die. They should at least have
>been gived an honest chance. Maybe NASA was afraid they might freak
>out and have a live sex orgy on live TV. Maybe that was there
>reason to downplay the whole thing to them with out really exaiming the
>problem. Again if Glen was on there I bet they would have checked.
This is where you show your ignorance of spacemissions.. As far as I can tell
only one person in the crew (Chawla -Sp?) was trained for EVA. EVA is very
dangerous and you don't do it lightly. Ok so there was a problem but you have
to weigh up risks. Oh and you can do A LOT of damage by scrambling on the
outside of the shuttle with just a rope - remember they were not expecting to
do an EVA.
They were also in the wrong orbit to go to the ISS (as some people have
sugested going there so the ISS could take a look) - it would probably have
used up most of their fuel to get there so if they arrived they would not get
back to earth!! The shuttle was not equiped to dock with the ISS and i don't
think any of the crew were trained in this VERY dangerous manouever anyway.
You can't just launch another shuttle like you can a plane or a rescue ship.
lots of stuff has to be prepared and then you have to wait for a window and
hope the weather holds off.
As for taking pictures from earth - possible BUT this is very dependant on the
weather and the sattlelites you have seen pictures taken of are in a
Geosynchronous orbit to get a picture of shuttle you'd need a telescope with
very fast tracking - i'm not sure if one could do this. Besides the shuttle
usually orbits with its "topside" facing the earth.
Maybe a military sattlelite could have been tasked to take some snaps - but
this would have been fought against because of the cost and even then I'm not
sure it would be feasible.
harsh world but I'm not sure there were many options.
Omne thing I've been wondering is if while re-entering the crew knew something
was going wrong could they have manouvered the craft in such a way that it
"skipped" off the atmosphere - I know this is possible but I wonder if this
could have been done or if the shuttle had the wrong angle of approach/was too
far into the atmosphere.
hard decisions .
what we need to do now is make sure it doesn't happen again.
trom
(BTW what has this to do with sci.crypt?)
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