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Moderated By: Rande Is -- (Not Moderated) -- Started: 2/1/2003 10:30:14 AM  Revision History At 9am EST on February 1st, the U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia, America's 140th manned space flight, broke apart upon re-entry into earth's atmosphere. . . 39 miles (207,000 ft.)above the earth . . traveling at Mach 6 (12,500 mph). The first sensor reportedly lost was the hydraulics. Soon after all tracking data was lost. On Jan. 16, shortly after Columbia lifted off, a piece of insulating foam on its external fuel tank came off and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle. Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard. The 7 member crew can be seen at: space.com  This board is for posting information, your account, where you were, your thoughts and your prayers. RIP: STS-107 Rande Is

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627		D.Austin	-	08/10/2012 10:51 PM
626	Very interesting...	Yogizuna	-	12/15/2003 06:05 PM
625	nytimes.com  PowerPoint Makes You Dumb By CLIVE THOMPSON Published: Decem	Tom Swift	-	12/14/2003 08:59 AM
624	Khalil, Foam can be quite rigid, if the density is high, (and by high I mean 6-8	Bill Jackson	-	09/01/2003 09:54 PM
623	It's amazing what drag, even at ~.1 atm can do. The actual acceleration on t	S. maltophilia	-	09/01/2003 08:23 PM
622	Khalil, Remember that foam will break off and enter a jet stream of several thou	Bill Jackson	-	09/01/2003 05:50 PM
621	Yes, I'm with you about the complexity of this problem... They would probab	Yogizuna	-	07/28/2003 03:30 PM
620	That's the $64K question. I'm not sure what to do with it, and I suspect	S. maltophilia	-	07/25/2003 08:34 PM
619	In your opinion, how much of an affect if any, would the thin atmosphere have on	Yogizuna	-	07/25/2003 05:19 PM
618	Continuing to beat this dead horse <g> nytimes.com  <<The event	S. maltophilia	-	07/23/2003 02:22 AM
617	<< whatever they are>> Eventually we'll have to go check it out.	Yogizuna	-	07/15/2003 04:34 PM