BonosSaint
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So far looks good. Keeping fingers crossed.
There was some concern among US space agency (Nasa) officials after several pieces of debris appeared to fall off the external fuel tank shortly after lift-off.
"About two minutes and 47 seconds, give or take, we saw three, perhaps four, pieces come off," said Wayne Hale, the shuttle programme manager.
He added that it was unclear whether the objects were insulating foam or "something else", but said it was too high to cause damage to the craft.
BonosSaint said:They seem pretty secure the foam didn't damage the shuttle this time. Hoping that's the case. It was very pretty to watch the launch.
BonosSaint said:Sigh of relief and pleasure.
BonoVoxSupastar said:I agree as well. It amazes me that NASA uses the American thinking of "if it ain't broke don't fix it". It's a dangerous mode of thinking...
shart1780 said:OMG it blew up!
shart1780 said:OMG it blew up!
shart1780 said:I just have a completely horribe sense of humor
A_Wanderer said:I'll be happy to see the advent of a space elevator
nbcrusader said:
I wonder if we would have ever made it into space using our expectations today. Examine one of the original Mercury or Gemini capsules, and you realize that you could probably take it apart with tools from the average toolbox – very simplistic, fragile equipment.
The last five years in materials science has certainly turned me around, if we applied ourselves today we could do it for a few hundred billion dollars but that price tag will come down a lot over the next few (as in 3) decades with the capacity for industrial scale fabrication of things like carbon fillament.U2DMfan said:
That idea is a great one.
Maybe conceivable but not realistic, but who cares, it would be awesome.
They were actually cooking this one up which is my suspicion why Wanderer brought this up. How cool would that be?