Columbia Shuttle Crew Never Warned About The Damage!!

[gonzalu]

Cheers Perriwen, once again, my sincere and genuine apologies for all I have said to you. No need to apologize to me as you have done nothing wrong. No need to be paranoid, take it at face value.

Thank you.

[wunaladreamin]

Cheers Perriwen, once again, my sincere and genuine apologies for all I have said to you. No need to apologize to me as you have done nothing wrong. No need to be paranoid, take it at face value.

Thank you.

It's the Taylor Swift isn't it...

[Perriwen]

Cheers Perriwen, once again, my sincere and genuine apologies for all I have said to you. No need to apologize to me as you have done nothing wrong. No need to be paranoid, take it at face value.

Thank you.

You're welcome. Let's just start over, yes?

[NIKV69]

[megatop412]

Every astronaut that goes up is fully aware that unforseen circumstances can end their life in the hostile environment of launch/orbit/reentry. They leave their homes for the launch pad knowing it could be the last time they see their loved ones(police and other high-risk occupations do the same). That said, they are still human beings and if they had been told of what happened(provided that an accurate assessment had been conducted), I'm sure they would have LOVED the opportunity to tell fate to suck it and figure that problem out, and return home safely. The folks on the ground didn't have the, we'll call it 'motivation', that the folks on Columbia would have had to do this. And I'm surprised that they didn't have the NASA equivalent of 'fix-a-flat' onboard for these sorts of problems, knowing the heat shield tiles were absolutely critical for safe reentry, but I'm not a NASA guy so that's as ignorant as I'm willing to get.


Al Haynes knew things were pretty bad when his DC-10 lost all hydraulics. But he didn't spend the last minutes of Flight 232 paraylzed by fear or doom- he and the other crew worked their asses off to troubleshoot that thing back to Earth as safely as they could. That is the strength of what human resolve can accomplish, and I don't put it past anybody to pull off what seems to be the impossible.

[PhilDernerJr]

This topic is getting locked for obvious reasons. The arguments has gotten out of hand and I don't think it can be recovered if I deleted the violating threads (which make up a majority of the thread).

Play nice guys.