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Topic: Explosive bolts? -- CNN
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tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 02-04-2003 02:38 AM
   
I just saw something on CNN about the recovery of parts. I forget who the reporter was, but he was saying that they wanted people not to touch parts (obviously) and mentioned they were looking for some explosive bolts. He then went on to mention that they were bolts to separate the crew cabin from the shuttle in case of emergency, but couldn't be used in this case.
The only bolts that I know of are the connections to the ET or possibly the hatch or top escape hatches on the roof of the cockpit.
Yesterday I saw an interview with Jake Garn who said the ISS crew could be retrieved from the station in the Soyuz, but only one person at a time!
Sometimes I just want to mute the TV....and put some duct tape across the bottom so I don't have to see that extremely annoying scrolling thing - that is often wrong also.Tom www.geocities.com/tegwilym2/collection
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eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 02-04-2003 09:11 AM
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Originally posted by tegwilym:
I Yesterday I saw an interview with Jake Garn who said the ISS crew could be retrieved from the station in the Soyuz, but only one person at a time!
That would require three Soyuz taxi flights then, in other words: over a period of 18 months. First in April 2003, 2nd in October/November 2003, last in April 2004. Anybody thinking one of them will remain aboard for that period of time, possibly beating Poliakov's record? I doubt that very much. There is a lot of babble on the airwaves these days ......
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tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 02-04-2003 12:46 PM
I just thought it was kind of odd to hear Jake Garn make that comment. I figured that since he had flown on the shuttle that maybe he would at least follow the space program a little closer and be a bit more knowledgeable on the topic. Of course he could have been tired from giving interviews all day, and most of the general public would never have caught on to that either.I must not forget the fact that I've been watching CNN for the last few days! Ahhh...I can't wait to get moved into my house, I'll be able to set up a dish for NASA TV!  |
Philip
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 02-04-2003 02:30 PM
Anyway, if they want to relieve the ISS resident crew one by one, that means the last guy will be over a year on board as the Soyuz is designed to stay 200 days in space before it has to be replaced by a 'fresh' vehicle ...
Next up normally is a Soyuz with Spanish astronaut Pedro DUCQUE onboard ... Things might be rescheduled and the Russian Space Agency announced they won't be taking any more Space Tourists ( or Space participants) due to the Columbia accident ...
Well it's up to Endeavour, Atlantis and Discovery to keep up Shuttle's legacy ! |
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posted 02-04-2003 02:44 PM
Yea, I was quite entertained to see the CNN website claim that the shuttle broke up when it was travelling at 18 times the speed of light. Breaking physical laws now then. I'm used to despairing of the UK press getting this sort of thing wrong, what with our total lack of a space programme, but I'd expected CNN to be a little more informed. or was that a little too hopeful.....? |
Hawkman
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From: Union, New Jersey
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 02-04-2003 04:17 PM
Well, lets see... I saw Rita Cosby on Fox News, sitting right next to Gene Cernan, say that he had been ON the moon...TWICE. Right. George Stephanopolus on ABC said that Sally Ride was the first woman in space..until after the commercial in which he got it right and said first American Woman. Must have gotten a good slap upside the head. I've heard the shuttle referred to as a "capsule" and the tiles referred to as a "heat shield". To top it off, I see Ashleigh Banfield on MSNBC last night, touching what is obviously some type of round fuel tank...after NASA took pains to tell folks NOT to touch ANY debris...much less a fuel tank. Guess it didn't apply to her.Idiots. Gene |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 02-04-2003 04:20 PM
What do you guys think of that scrolling thing on the bottom of the screen? I find when I read that I get nothing out of anything. I can't read it and understand what is going on on the video at the same time. It seems to be the new fad on the news channel after 9/11. I just find it annoying, and suffer from information overload when I try to watch and read that thing at the same time! Tom |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 02-04-2003 04:47 PM
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Originally posted by Hawkman:
I see Ashleigh Banfield on MSNBC last night, touching what is obviously some type of round fuel tank...after NASA took pains to tell folks NOT to touch ANY debris
Gene
If there was anything that you shouldn't touch or get near it's definately one of those round tanks. I think I saw the same thing. She was reading the serial number off the tank and commenting how amazing it was that it could still be read. What's so amazing about that?
In other video clips I saw news people leaning over the plastic tape and poking the debris with a stick for all the world to see! Great example guys, NASA says DON'T TOUCH, and you touch it so the whole world sees it? Duh! Tom
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tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 02-04-2003 05:41 PM
I just came across this on another mail list.....
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=22039&group=webcast |
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