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creedon

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The Space Shuttle has crashed
« on: 1 February 2003, 18:48 »
The Columbia just broke up on landing.  The tape on CNN shows it breaking up.  It's gone.  :(    :(
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« Reply #1 on: 1 February 2003, 19:08 »
Shit that's no good.

BBC Story

CNN Story
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cahult

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« Reply #2 on: 1 February 2003, 19:19 »
Almost on the day 17 years after the Challenger disaster. Awful!  :(

[ February 01, 2003: Message edited by: cahult ]

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« Reply #3 on: 1 February 2003, 19:36 »
Yes, I heard about it in the news and instantly remembered the Challenger explosion in '86. Such a pity for those people.   :(
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« Reply #4 on: 1 February 2003, 20:00 »
I had woken up earlier for some reason, not sure what. I get up at about 9:40 because my dad woke me up to tell me the Columbia blew up. According to him he thought it was the trash truck emptying the dumpster across the street because it shook the house up.  :(  

And something I've thought about after getting up, didn't they leave people up on the space station?
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« Reply #5 on: 1 February 2003, 20:02 »
I'm old enough to remember statying home from school to watch the news on the Challenger explosion.

Astronauts have always had my respect for their bravery.
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« Reply #6 on: 1 February 2003, 21:44 »
i wasn't born till after the challenger accident (i was born in 87), someone tell me: are you getting the same reactions/feelings to this as u did back then?
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« Reply #7 on: 1 February 2003, 22:32 »
i stayed home to watch the first shuttle launch.
i saw the challenger crash as well.
i think it was a bit harder to see the shuttle spread across the sky then to just see it blow up.
i only hope it was a quick death for them.
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« Reply #8 on: 2 February 2003, 00:09 »
I thought the reporters asking about terrorist was hilarious. What a bunch of dumbasses. Them and the people that think we should down the shuttles permanently.

Two accidents out of 120 something successful missions. That's pretty damn good for the FIRST EVER reusable space vehicle.
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« Reply #9 on: 2 February 2003, 00:14 »
quote:
Originally posted by Siplus:
i wasn't born till after the challenger accident (i was born in 87), someone tell me: are you getting the same reactions/feelings to this as u did back then?


I came home from school that day and the news on Challenger was the first I heard on the radio.
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« Reply #10 on: 2 February 2003, 21:35 »
This isn't supposed to happen.


This sucks.
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SpeeDFreaK

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« Reply #11 on: 2 February 2003, 21:58 »
Hey JimmyJ, I too think that the whole terrorist thing is BS, but I was talking to someone earlier today at an event and he said he saw some tape someone made in New Mexico, showing something going up to the space shuttle before the explosion. I haven't seen it anywhere on the stations around here. Has anyone else here seen it or heard of it?
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« Reply #12 on: 3 February 2003, 00:47 »
Damn I seen it on the news when it happened.
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« Reply #13 on: 3 February 2003, 00:54 »
And this was going to be the last time STS-107 would go into space. I belive they're blaming cracks in outer shell or something like that.
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« Reply #14 on: 3 February 2003, 01:35 »
Last I heard was At launch, a piece of insulating foam came off the external fuel tank, causing a flash and possibly knocking off heat-resistant tiles on the shuttle. Either way, Ouch.
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