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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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