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To: Win Smith who wrote (433)2/7/2003 10:17:31 AM
From: Condor  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 603
 
At the launch, I saw footage of something falling off the main engine and striking the shuttle. I assume that event was noticed at launch. I don't understand why the shuttle was not at least visually inspected by the space station personnell through their window. Seems odd.
C



To: Win Smith who wrote (433)2/8/2003 10:05:06 PM
From: Bilow  Respond to of 603
 
Hi Win Smith; It still looks like only a major redesign could fix even the part of the shuttle that failed. The worse problem is that losing another machine indicates that NASA's ability to estimate failure probabilities is, uh, broken. Fixing the management control takes longer than fixing the design.

My guess is that we will never see another shuttle fly.

-- Carl


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