Re: First Report of the Columbia Accident on Usenet

From: bob haller (hallerb_at_aol.com)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: 21 Jan 2005 14:18:08 GMT

>
>A Shuttle stuck at the station is a Bad Thing.
>
>Columbia was a Bad Thing.
>
>Bob hypothecated, or at least insists he did very enthusiastically so
>let's give him the benefit of the doubt, the possibility one example of
>the class (Bad Thing) before another, unrelated, example of the class
>(Bad Thing) happened.
>
>What this indicates is that things of the class (Bad Thing) can and do
>happen. Bob appears to have taken the logical leap that all incidences
>of the class (Bad Thing) are equivalent and interchangeable, and thus by
>predicting one kind he should be given credit for having forseen
>another, and then I kinda get lost as to where we are. But it's probably
>a Bad Thing.
>
>--
>-Andrew Gray
> andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
>

My point both before and after coulubia is this....

NASA should look at all possible trouble situations, and plan for the what if!

Instead such troubles like a shuttle stuck at station were ignored:(

Today with RTF my biggie is a shuttle that makes orbit cant reach station and
cant return safely.

Imagine the horror and outrage if the following occured some day..........

nasa to protect the world from a uncontrolled deorbit someday orders the crew
to a sure death burning up in the mid pacific,

now add the fact we have no quick supplies to orbit capability. if the crews
death might have been preventable with a emergency supplies to orbit abilty
nasa will be completely dishonored in the publics eye.

of course the no fast parts to orbit can effect the ISS too.

NASAs jobs program has ignored such risks for too long, and the next safety
board will be asking why...
.
.
End the dangerous wasteful shuttle now before it kills any more astronauts....

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