How I miss the Space Shuttle, her majesty, her simplicity, her rudimentary technology, yet somehow with all the low-tech gadgetry, she fulfilled her mission goals well and helped keep stuff going like nothing else we've put into space since. Hubble thanks her.
The second one was because the used an environmentally friendly foam that would break off during launch and damaged the heat tile. Should have stuck with the other stuff.
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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
It's sad 2 crew lost their lives. After the first accident, shouldn't the second accident not happen?
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Those accidents were of course tragedies but space travel is inherently dangerous. You will never make it 100% safe.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I got to watch the last one to land at Edwards Dry Lake Bed come down many, many years ago. The wind shifted that morning, so they came in from a different direction and much farther away than expected, but it was still cool. Heard another's double sonic boom when the winds necessitated a south-north approach directly over Los Angeles a few years earlier.
It's sad 2 crew lost their lives. After the first accident, shouldn't the second accident not happen?
I would had liked to watch the Space Shuttle launch in person. The folks who have were lucky.
Unfortunately, that’s not the case, there’d be an awful lot of people alive instead of dead in plane crashes if that was the case!
These guys were invited to watch the first shuttle launch and were moved enough to write a song about it. GOD, I love this song!
It’s more than a little depressing that the next moon mission and any eventual Mars (or farther) missions likely won’t excite the nation (and world) like Apollo and the space shuttle did.
Phil
“The biggest problem people have is they don’t think they’re supposed to have problems.” - Hayes Barnard
Apollo 15 set several new records for crewed spaceflight: heaviest payload in a lunar orbit of approximately 107,000 pounds, maximum radial distance traveled on the lunar surface away from the spacecraft of about 17.5 miles, most lunar surface moonwalks (three) and longest total of duration for lunar surface moonwalk (18 hours, 37 minutes), longest time in lunar orbit (about 145 hours), longest crewed lunar mission (295 hours), longest Apollo mission, the first satellite placed in lunar orbit by a crewed spacecraft, and first deep space and operational spacewalk.
It's sad 2 crew lost their lives. After the first accident, shouldn't the second accident not happen?
I would had liked to watch the Space Shuttle launch in person. The folks who have were lucky.
I saw a launch in person and it was awesome.
Space is dangerous, and those astronauts know this. There may never be safe spaceflight with conventional technology, but these risks are worth taking to help ensure the survival of mankind.
