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Pastimes : Shuttle Columbia STS-107 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Aggie who wrote (27)	2/1/2003 12:02:45 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 627

An engineer stated that this was the altitude where they were changing over to winged flight. As for fuel they are thruster controlled until winged flight and they surely are going to have more then enough to not run out and the fuel is surely some nasty stuff.

To: Aggie who wrote (27)	2/1/2003 2:11:25 PM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 627

The SR 71 get's only 100K feet to cruise at. No one never made missiles for 200K "flight level". I reject any terrorist theory. Unless one would accept that some ground crew guy planted a small bomb... to be triggered by a thermometer! A sad day indeed. Columbia was our nicest and most fantastic achievement, and her crew was among the bravest.

To: Aggie who wrote (27)	2/1/2003 2:51:15 PM
From: Julius Wong	Respond to of 627

SR-71 Blackbird wvi.com

To: Aggie who wrote (27)	2/2/2003 3:01:25 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 627

Re: My take is that the "toxic hazard" story line is to ensure that the wreckage is undisturbed for maximum investigatory benefit. Correct, this is another example of the government blatantly lying to the public, with the news media playing a suitably obsequious lapdog role. This is why so many of us are so angry at the government and the media. It would have been just as easy and far more honorable to say that the collection of souvenirs would be considered a hindrance to the investigation of the accident and therefore the collection, sale or distribution of debris from the spacecraft would be considered theft of government property and prosecutable under standard laws. To say that toxic chemicals would remain in large enough concentrations to harm the public is a remarkable stretch. One that only a fear-monger could love to spread. -Ray