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Author Topic: some history on the shuttle Columbia... Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-04-2003 11:27 PM                    I have never heard that one before. Of course the Enterprise was never intended to go into space. When Columbia was launched for the first time it lost a lot of tiles on the tail section but they were low heat tiles that did not bare the brunt of reentry. Some pieces of the shuttle have possably been found here in parts of Kentucky. We had a low pass thruogh over the past few days that could have carried some light debrit up this way. NASA has not confirmed that they are pieces but has requested that they be sent to Houston or maybe Florida.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-07-2003 06:38 PM                    Excert from a story on the Chicago Sun Times web site... Space junk to blame? Space shuttles have been returning to Earth with a larger-than-expected number of dings from space junk, prompting NASA to make changes to better avoid potentially catastrophic collisions, space agency documents show. NASA's own documents detail replacements of nicked windshields and dents caused by space debris collisions that have become more frequent than NASA's computer models had predicted. A NASA report disclosed last May that the computer modeling the space agency was using to assess the dangers ''was underpredicting'' the number of collisions and urged a revision to the way NASA calculated the risks. NASA made the changes after a decade of seeing shuttles return to Earth far more banged up than expected. The number of dings and dents ''was in the hundreds for about 20 shuttle missions,'' said NASA consultant Donald Kessler, who kept track of space debris for the agency during a three-decade career.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-13-2003 03:13 PM                        NASA now has a new flash entry on their website that is pretty neat (has sound too).  |  IP: Logged

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