From: Paul A. Thomas (bluewhale@jaxkneppers.com)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 12:06:29 PST
Could not individual pods be set so that they fired out backward ( assuming
they had time to notice the shuttle was blowing up ) from the shuttle's
trajectory and be ... steerable until they can get to a lower altitude and
use a chute? Just a little single person slip stream pod for each person?
Or is science fiction still too far ahead of physics as we know it?
I wonder if pilots in WWII did not believe in the idea of an ejection seat?
Paul
At 11:40 AM 2/1/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Jay, and list...
>
>Sad day for all of us, but I don't think the escape module would have
>helped in this instance. If I remember right, the design was based on a
>launch failure like Challenger's... not a "pod" that would withstand
>re-entry speeds and heat.
>
>Chris Davis
>MVPA#20000
>Lake Elsinore, CA
>
>At 12:23 PM 2/1/03 -0600, J Travis wrote:
>>> Looks like that decision to cut costs by eliminating the crew escape
>>>module to save on the budget might not have been such a great idea after
>>>all, huh? Thanks, Mr. Clinton. I'm sure all those public school library
>>>copies of "Billy has Two Daddies" bought with the "savings" on the NASA
>>>budget are a real comfort to the families of the astronauts...
>>>
>>>What we REALLY need is to go ahead and fund the development of the space
>>>plane, to replace the Orbiter (space shuttle) system that SHOULD have
>>>been done in the late eighties. But between cutting the NASA budget to
>>>fund politically motivated social agendas and not being willing to
>>>overhaul the industry built around continuing the support of this
>>>obsolete technology, we now find ourselves right back where we were in
>>>1986 with Challenger. My sympathies to the families of those lost today.
>>
>>
>>Jay Travis
>>
>>
>>Ryan Gill wrote:
>>
>>>At 9:48 AM -0500 2/1/03, Alan R Wise wrote:
>>>
>>>>Terrible day, February 1, 2003.
>>>
>>>
>>>Damn it.
>>
>>
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