From: J Travis (dagobert@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 14:04:07 PST
As I recall, one of the proposals put forward after Challenger was
analyzed was for a cockpit "module" that could be seperated and would
contain the entire crew, similar in function to the F-111 and the B1-B
bombers (although engineered to meet the greater loads). It was later
decided that it would be too expensive to retrofit the shuttles for
NASA's budget during the Clinton administration.
Jay Travis
Chris Davis 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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