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 Posted: 02/02/03 - 17:38 Post subject:
I agree that our money could be better spent elsewhere than on space exploration. Once again its all politics. The major contractors have a bing influence on things. It will be just like when congress came up with plans for closing the various bases throughout the country. The members were all for closing everyone except the ones in their own district.
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Posted: 02/02/03 - 17:41 Post subject:
| copdotcom1 wrote: | | It is very sad and also so shocking since shuttle flights have become almost routine now. |
Very interesting point...one of our local broadcasters said the same thing yesterday and it struck me too, I didn't even know Columbia was landing yesterday. We take so much from NASA, esp things like shuttle landings, for granted and assume that things will be routine, that they will land safely. We don't even think to worry anymore.
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Cappy
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Posted: 02/02/03 - 17:42 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | copdotcom1 wrote: | | It is very sad and also so shocking since shuttle flights have become almost routine now. |
Very interesting point...one of our local broadcasters said the same thing yesterday and it struck me too, I didn't even know Columbia was landing yesterday. We take so much from NASA, esp things like shuttle landings, for granted and assume that things will be routine, that they will land safely. We don't even think to worry anymore. |
That is when errors and mistakes happen when things as complex as space travel become...routine.
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Posted: 02/02/03 - 17:49 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | copdotcom1 wrote: | | It is very sad and also so shocking since shuttle flights have become almost routine now. |
Very interesting point...one of our local broadcasters said the same thing yesterday and it struck me too, I didn't even know Columbia was landing yesterday. We take so much from NASA, esp things like shuttle landings, for granted and assume that things will be routine, that they will land safely. We don't even think to worry anymore. |
Very few people knew. Due to the fact there was an Israeli on board, security was very tight and launch/return dates were apparently not broadcast.
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Posted: 02/02/03 - 18:20 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | I agree that our money could be better spent elsewhere than on space exploration. Once again its all politics. The major contractors have a bing influence on things. It will be just like when congress came up with plans for closing the various bases throughout the country. The members were all for closing everyone except the ones in their own district. |
I'm not against space exploration...just seems like the shuttle program is antiquated and I question NASA's ability to govern it effectively...it cost 1/2 a billion dollars everytime we launch a shuttle a far cry from the estimated 5 million dollars that was first estimated at the beginning of the program...and I'm not real sure what our dollars have gained us in the way of new 'discoveries' over the last several years..
A couple of very interesting points in the article:
*a presidential commission will be formed to examine the diaster because congress is too rife with pork-barrel politics to look at it objectively.
*the shuttle program and technology are so antiquated by today's terms that up until a couple of years ago most of the computers in the flight deck were powered by 8086 processors.
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Posted: 02/02/03 - 18:26 Post subject:
Some of the experiments they do and have done are beneficial, but I feel the money could be better spent on other domestic programs.
An independent commission would be good, but I hope that it can be objective.
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Posted: 02/02/03 - 18:35 Post subject:
Members of the NASA investigation commission:
The Gehman Board
- Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Harold W. Gehman, Jr, Chairman
- Rear Admiral Stephen Turcotte, Commander, U.S. Naval Safety Center, Norfolk, Va.
- Major General John L. Barry, Director, Plans and Programs, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
- Major General Kenneth W. Hess, Commander, U.S. Air Force Chief of Safety, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.
- Dr. James N. Hallock, Aviation Safety Division Chief, U.S. Department of Transportation, Cambridge, Mass.
- Steven B. Wallace, Director of Accident Investigation, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington
- Brigadier General Duane Deal, Commander 21st Space Wing, Peterson Air Foce Base, Colo
From the NASA website
Their first meeting is tomorrow.
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Posted: 02/02/03 - 19:00 Post subject:
| megawill wrote: | | Cappy wrote: | | I agree that our money could be better spent elsewhere than on space exploration. Once again its all politics. The major contractors have a bing influence on things. It will be just like when congress came up with plans for closing the various bases throughout the country. The members were all for closing everyone except the ones in their own district. |
I'm not against space exploration...just seems like the shuttle program is antiquated and I question NASA's ability to govern it effectively...it cost 1/2 a billion dollars everytime we launch a shuttle a far cry from the estimated 5 million dollars that was first estimated at the beginning of the program...and I'm not real sure what our dollars have gained us in the way of new 'discoveries' over the last several years..
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what about the simulated coin toss at zero gravity before Superbowl XXXI?????
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