What are you talking about? Exploding? They don't know the cause or even IF it was exploding!
space shuttle explodes
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jrfritz
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They don't even know what CAUSED the thing!!!
What are you talking about? Exploding? They don't know the cause or even IF it was exploding!
What are you talking about? Exploding? They don't know the cause or even IF it was exploding!
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Joey
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this is one of those events where you wont forget where you were, what you were doing, etc, at the time you found out about it.
my science teacher said this is what he thinks happened.
he said that during launch, a peice of styrofoam fell out from a place that keeps the ship from burning or something. the styrofoam hit one of the heat shield tiles and knocked it out. that one then hit the one below it and so on, creating a domino effect. no one noticed this. the heat then caught the ship on fire as it dissintigrated coming back to earth.
that is what my science teacher thinks.
this was the first ever problem during a landing though.
my science teacher said this is what he thinks happened.
he said that during launch, a peice of styrofoam fell out from a place that keeps the ship from burning or something. the styrofoam hit one of the heat shield tiles and knocked it out. that one then hit the one below it and so on, creating a domino effect. no one noticed this. the heat then caught the ship on fire as it dissintigrated coming back to earth.
that is what my science teacher thinks.
this was the first ever problem during a landing though.
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beyondsociety
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Landing or as put: re-entering the earths atmosphere.[quoe]...Apollo 13.... was that landing or take-off?
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gpm
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The problems with Apollo 13 happened for a whole different reason. In that instance, some sort of coil sparked within the oxygen tank when the ship was already in space, causing an explosion that knocked out most of the spaceship's systems.
The big question was whether the heat shield was damaged during the explosion. It might have been, but it wasn't serious enough for the re-entry craft to disintegrate like the Columbia did.
The big question was whether the heat shield was damaged during the explosion. It might have been, but it wasn't serious enough for the re-entry craft to disintegrate like the Columbia did.
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jrfritz
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mr-t
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Oh man. Reminds me of Opposing Force when your tiltrotor gets nuked by that alien bird - ship - transport thing
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Mastermind
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Yo, ;Dsmartguy240 wrote:You stole that from me theif!Allyb wrote: Ack
hehe
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chrisa128
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Anyone know anymore now?
War on IRAQ has kinda taken this over on the news and I havn't heard anything on this for a lttle while!
War on IRAQ has kinda taken this over on the news and I havn't heard anything on this for a lttle while!