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| | | It is haunting that the challenger discussion was just brought up in this group, now more disaster. I just witnessed the footage on television and I and humbled and saddened. My heart goes out to the families of the crew. May this remind us how the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Columbia —Jon Palmer
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| | | | | "Tony Knaak" <tknaaker@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H9n11z.Jxt@lugnet.com... (...) May (...) This is how I woke up today, with a phone call. I can't believe this happened. I know there are so many risks to begin with but it doesn't make it any (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Columbia —Jon Palmer
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| | | | | | I put up another small tribute image on the sidebar. This isn't exactly something I looked forward to doing again. I haven't even deleted the picture of the Challenger crew from my site yet. Such a loss. [ j o n ] -- | Lego - (URL) Shipyard - (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Columbia and .space —Paul Hartzog
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| | | | | | Reflecting on this disaster, and sending good thoughts to the families... Material stresses going from hot to cold are much greater during winter. One would hope that NASA would consider a moratorium on winter launches. But there's another point to (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Columbia and .space —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | | | | (...) ?Huh? What does winter have to do with it? The orbiter is designed to withstand on-orbit thermal cycling far greater than any it would experience on Earth. (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Columbia and .space —Paul Hartzog
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| | | | | | | | ja but the only stresses on those already heated/cooled materials are torsional, i.e. NOT gravitic. During re-entry the gravitic stresses reassert themselves dramatically and if the thermal changes have weakened anything then the gravitic stresses (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Columbia and .space —Nicole Drumm
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| | | | | | I couldn't have said it any better myself, Paul. -- Thanx~ Nicole Drumm MS (URL) Hartzog" <panarchy23@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H9nEKG.AC3@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Columbia —Tony Alexander
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| | | | (...) VERY haunting, and especially creepy for me. I've always known that an Apollo mission blew up on the launch pad on the day I was born, January 27, 1967. I always had an interest in space exploration, fueled by science fiction (especially Star (...) (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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