Something's Up With The Space Shuttle (Missing)

[UNCjigga]

During a mission status news conference yesterday, Entry Flight Director Leroy Cain was asked about any possible damage to the shuttle's thermal tiles during launch. The tiles are what protect the shuttle during the fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

Tracking video of launch shows what appears to be a piece of foam insulation from the shuttle's external tank falling away during ascent and hitting the shuttle's left wing near its leading edge.

But Cain said engineers "took a very thorough look at the situation with the tile on the left wing and we have no concerns whatsoever. We haven't changed anything with respect to our trajectory design. It will be a nominal, standard trajectory."

Well damn....

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: Pastfinder
My God... It undoubtalbly broke apart, my god my god. I hope they can at least recover the crew....My God.......

Not to be a naysayer, but they were 200,000 feet up. Not much chance for survival.

 

[LH]

According to local news(WFAA) debris is turning up. Some was found in Oklahoma.

 

[Pastfinder]

Originally posted by: BDawg

Originally posted by: Pastfinder
My God... It undoubtalbly broke apart, my god my god. I hope they can at least recover the crew....My God.......

Not to be a naysayer, but they were 200,000 feet up. Not much chance for survival.

No shlt, I'm referring to the remains...

 

[Tominator]

How fragile we really are....

I hope their end was quick.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: BDawg

Originally posted by: Pastfinder
My God... It undoubtalbly broke apart, my god my god. I hope they can at least recover the crew....My God.......

Not to be a naysayer, but they were 200,000 feet up. Not much chance for survival.

No shlt, I'm referring to the remains...

Umm, that thing just turned into a flying crematorium. No remains coming.

 

[Pastfinder]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: BDawg

Originally posted by: Pastfinder
My God... It undoubtalbly broke apart, my god my god. I hope they can at least recover the crew....My God.......

Not to be a naysayer, but they were 200,000 feet up. Not much chance for survival.

No shlt, I'm referring to the remains...

Umm, that thing just turned into a flying crematorium. No remains coming.

Crew Capsule, the possibility does exist...

 

[Hammer]

Ill never forget when the challenger was destroyed. I was in elementary school (3rd grade i think) and our teacher came and got us during lunch and told us that 20 minutes earlier it had blown up. the memory has stuck with me so clearly even til this day.

 

[LaLaLand]

Yea i was home from school sick that day sitting in front of the tv when BOOM. Momma turned it off..........

 

[Tominator]

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: BDawg

Originally posted by: Pastfinder
My God... It undoubtalbly broke apart, my god my god. I hope they can at least recover the crew....My God.......

Not to be a naysayer, but they were 200,000 feet up. Not much chance for survival.

No shlt, I'm referring to the remains...

Umm, that thing just turned into a flying crematorium. No remains coming.

Crew Capsule, the possibility does exist...

I hope not. Although still classified information, there are many experts that claim the Challenger crew could have survived until impact with the water. Two full minutes to contemplate your fate.....

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: BDawg

Originally posted by: Pastfinder
My God... It undoubtalbly broke apart, my god my god. I hope they can at least recover the crew....My God.......

Not to be a naysayer, but they were 200,000 feet up. Not much chance for survival.

No shlt, I'm referring to the remains...

Umm, that thing just turned into a flying crematorium. No remains coming.

Crew Capsule, the possibility does exist...

I guess...but I just don't imagine anything coming down with significant size.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Hammer
Ill never forget when the challenger was destroyed. I was in elementary school (3rd grade i think) and our teacher came and got us during lunch and told us that 20 minutes earlier it had blown up. the memory has stuck with me so clearly even til this day.

very clearly.

This will be without a doubt the beginning of the end for the shuttle. It is 25 years and is in bad need of replacement.

 

[Mandrill]

The Challenger Disaster was exactly 17 years, 3 days ago.

 

[Alphazero]

Unbelievable

MSNBC

 

[RBlount]

Another sad day

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Tominator

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: BDawg

Originally posted by: Pastfinder
My God... It undoubtalbly broke apart, my god my god. I hope they can at least recover the crew....My God.......

Not to be a naysayer, but they were 200,000 feet up. Not much chance for survival.

No shlt, I'm referring to the remains...

Umm, that thing just turned into a flying crematorium. No remains coming.

Crew Capsule, the possibility does exist...

I hope not. Although still classified information, there are many experts that claim the Challenger crew could have survived until impact with the water. Two full minutes to contemplate your fate.....

I have read the reports transcripts. I do not know if they were real or not however.

 

[Pastfinder]

Originally posted by: Tominator

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: BDawg

Originally posted by: Pastfinder
My God... It undoubtalbly broke apart, my god my god. I hope they can at least recover the crew....My God.......

Not to be a naysayer, but they were 200,000 feet up. Not much chance for survival.

No shlt, I'm referring to the remains...

Umm, that thing just turned into a flying crematorium. No remains coming.

Crew Capsule, the possibility does exist...

I hope not. Although still classified information, there are many experts that claim the Challenger crew could have survived until impact with the water. Two full minutes to contemplate your fate.....

I'd like to not give up hope on the crew until we know the truth...

 

[thawolfman]

Damn it.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: Tominator

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA

Originally posted by: Pastfinder

Originally posted by: BDawg

Originally posted by: Pastfinder
My God... It undoubtalbly broke apart, my god my god. I hope they can at least recover the crew....My God.......

Not to be a naysayer, but they were 200,000 feet up. Not much chance for survival.

No shlt, I'm referring to the remains...

Umm, that thing just turned into a flying crematorium. No remains coming.

Crew Capsule, the possibility does exist...

I hope not. Although still classified information, there are many experts that claim the Challenger crew could have survived until impact with the water. Two full minutes to contemplate your fate.....

I'd like to not give up hope on the crew until we know the truth...

There is a good chance the fleet may get grounded, how many are up in the space station?

 

[NakaNaka]

I agree. Let's not jump to conclusions, especially about the cause, because you know that takes time to research. Right now, let's look for the shuttle/crew. Let's see if its the worst.

 

[rickn]

Originally posted by: Hammer
Ill never forget when the challenger was destroyed. I was in elementary school (3rd grade i think) and our teacher came and got us during lunch and told us that 20 minutes earlier it had blown up. the memory has stuck with me so clearly even til this day.

I was in High School, and I believe we were in History class, and we had TV carts that we could watch programming. I was watching it live on TV when it exploded. My heart sank watching columbia

 

[RBlount]

Just showed some pictures on CNN taken by an amatuer photographer. One of the pictures sure looks like some kind of explosion took place.

 

[NakaNaka]

Originally posted by: RBlount
Just showed some pictures on CNN taken by an amatuer photographer. One of the pictures sure looks like some kind of explosion took place.

Just saw that. This does not look good.

 

[tw1164]

My heart is w/ the families and workers @ nasa.

 

[Pastfinder]

At those speeds and temperatures, if one thing fails on reentry, a chain reaction starts and the item of reentry just starts tearing apart...