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    Columbia and .space —Paul Hartzog
   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 (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Columbia and .space —John Spencer Rezkalla
     (...) ?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. (21 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
    
         Re: Columbia and .space —Paul Hartzog
     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 (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
   
        Re: Columbia and .space —Nicole Drumm
   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... (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
 

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