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Re: Thirteen Years Ago Today Quote:
Humans live our entire lives aware of our own mortality, gnawed at by it at best and driven desperate and insane by it at worst. Cowardice, fear, anger, regret -- the crew of the Columbia was spared all that, and the ruination of their last moments that it would have accomplished. |
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Re: Thirteen Years Ago Today I can't blame Mission Control. Any way they handled it, it would have still been a tragedy. A very sad situation indeed. |
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Re: Thirteen Years Ago Today Quote:
By informing them of a risk that wasn't entirely confirmed, control would have been placing possibly undue stress upon the crew, which could have negatively affected their performance and jeopardized the re-entry and their chances of survival. It sounds heartless, but it's really just cold and rational by necessity. |
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Re: Thirteen Years Ago Today By the way, the shuttle did not " explode" as it were. All astronaughts remained alive until they hit the water. Read the commission report. Really fascinating and sad read. What they didn't want you to know: http://www.lutins.org/nasa.html |
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Re: Thirteen Years Ago Today Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
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