Something's Up With The Space Shuttle (Missing)

[Ime]

God Bless those brave people on the Shuttle. May God bring peace and comfort to their families.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: rickn

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
CNN is reporting that a plane was "awfully close" to the shuttle before the explosion, but it sounds like coincide to me since the videos dont show anything to that nature.

planes dont fly at 200,000 ft

A souped up mig got to about 120k feet, but it was just on a ballistic path with no control. Ignorant reporters.

 

[Pastfinder]

Originally posted by: RBlount

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Originally posted by: NakaNaka
CNN is reporting that a plane was "awfully close" to the shuttle before the explosion, but it sounds like coincide to me since the videos dont show anything to that nature.
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planes dont fly at 200,000 ft

That is the one thing I hate about watching breaking news. Too much speculation, too little fact, and too many people trying to "break" the news story.

At least I haven't heard too much speculation about it being a terrorist attack.

Welcome to CNN and the Media...

 

[rickn]

Originally posted by: RBlount

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Originally posted by: NakaNaka
CNN is reporting that a plane was "awfully close" to the shuttle before the explosion, but it sounds like coincide to me since the videos dont show anything to that nature.
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planes dont fly at 200,000 ft

That is the one thing I hate about watching breaking news. Too much speculation, too little fact, and too many people trying to "break" the news story.

At least I haven't heard too much speculation about it being a terrorist attack.

well, I was listening to that hillbilly that said he saw a commercial airliner near the shuttle, I just laughed

 

[Mandrill]

Originally posted by: rickn

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
CNN is reporting that a plane was "awfully close" to the shuttle before the explosion, but it sounds like coincide to me since the videos dont show anything to that nature.

planes dont fly at 200,000 ft

No but conspiracy theorists do

 

[Ime]

Sorry, double post.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Pastfinder
Only thing at 200,000 feet was the shuttle...

Like the joke about the sr-71 pilot requesting airspace at 80k feet.

controller: you have it if you can get there.

pilot: descending to 80.

 

[dabuddha]

just heard the news

 

[Pastfinder]

Is there anyone here from this area in Texas with information?

 

[fizmeister]

Originally posted by: rickn
I think it's crashed. I live in Tampa, and I didn't hear the sonic boom, and I hear it everytime it lands here.

There's more than one space station .

I'm in Houston, pretty near Johnson. Just woke up, so I haven't seen or heard anything.

Not the best news to start the day with.

 

[Grey]

My condolences go out to the 7 families who lost a family member today. This is going to be a big loss for the program and the ISS. This kills the schedule for the ISS and will probably be called to question again. I was actually watching this launch more then the others because they were getting a lot of experiments done.

 

[Broohaha]

some of you may remember my thread about "the absolute WORST way to die"..... i hate to imagine what those astronauts must have gone through at the end.....RIP

 

[LH]

Im watching WFAA out of Dallas(the place the footage came from) and Fox news. Theres not much difference in information between the two now.

WFAA currently has a NASA engineer on the phone. Hes talking about the possible damage the shuttle might have took on take off when insulation from the fuel tanks, hit the leading edge of the left wing.

 

Looks like it's gone - they're confirming that they've got debris. Seems like terrorism is far-fetched, since it was flying at 200,000 feet (whereas planes travel at 30,000-35,000 feet normally).

Those onboard will be in my thoughts.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Did anyone survive?

 

[rickn]

Originally posted by: fizmeister

Originally posted by: rickn
I think it's crashed. I live in Tampa, and I didn't hear the sonic boom, and I hear it everytime it lands here.

There's more than one space station .

I'm in Houston, pretty near Johnson. Just woke up, so I haven't seen or heard anything.

Not the best news to start the day with.

they lost contact at 9am, it was scheduled to land at 9:17, and they land like clockwork. I posted my message at 9:20, you can deduce the rest

 

[SeaSerpent]

This sucks....

 

[NakaNaka]

I know it sounded crazy, I was just reporting what the guy on CNN said.

So, we're assuming the crew is dead? Would they find their bodies on the ground or do they incinerate mid-air?

 

[Gujski]

Originally posted by: Grey
My condolences go out to the 7 families who lost a family member today. This is going to be a big loss for the program and the ISS. This kills the schedule for the ISS and will probably be called to question again. I was actually watching this launch more then the others because they were getting a lot of experiments done.

There are astronauts in the ISS now, aren't there? They cannot ground the fleet for too long or they will run out of supplies in the ISS? How long after challanger was the fleet grounded?

 

[RSMemphis]

ISS is not an issue, they can come to Earth with the Sojus capsule - may be safer anyway.

 

[NakaNaka]

Can anyone else not watch CNN anymore?

 

[geno]

Columbia is the oldest of NASA's shuttle fleet, first launched in 1981. It was on its 28th mission.

Man, that shuttle is older than I am, I would never imagine that a 21 year old shuttle would still be in service!


But man, $hitty news

 

[Gujski]

Originally posted by: RSMemphis
ISS is not an issue, they can come to Earth with the Sojus capsule - may be safer anyway.

Thats good

 

[RBlount]

Originally posted by: Gujski

Originally posted by: Grey
My condolences go out to the 7 families who lost a family member today. This is going to be a big loss for the program and the ISS. This kills the schedule for the ISS and will probably be called to question again. I was actually watching this launch more then the others because they were getting a lot of experiments done.

There are astronauts in the ISS now, aren't they? They cannot ground the fleet for too long or they will run out of supplies in the ISS? How long after challanger was the fleet grounded?

I guess that Russia could send up a couple of Soyuz capsules bring everybody home.

Doesn't look good for the future of the Shuttle. Based upon how the Challenger accident put the manned space program on hold for maybe two years.

-Rob

 

[NakaNaka]

Damn. I didn't realize they broke in with this on ALL the networks.