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Incredible, But Sad

Postby Brando14100 » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:26 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081003/ap_ ... ut_s_diary

Truly amazing that pages of a book survived.

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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby AMDDDA » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:36 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081003/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_astronaut_s_diary

Truly amazing that pages of a book survived.

8-)



Believe it or not, we actually had a chunk of columbia fall on our street when we lived in Dallas (we moved back to austin in late 05).


The police had the yellow tape and all that for a few hours until someone could come to retrieve it.
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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby a1 » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:38 pm

Just read that and is quite a find.
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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby Brando14100 » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:48 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081003/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_astronaut_s_diary

Truly amazing that pages of a book survived.

8-)



Believe it or not, we actually had a chunk of columbia fall on our street when we lived in Dallas (we moved back to austin in late 05).


The police had the yellow tape and all that for a few hours until someone could come to retrieve it.


Wow. You wouldn't happen to know what section of the shuttle it was from, would you?

8-)
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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby AMDDDA » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:16 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081003/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_astronaut_s_diary

Truly amazing that pages of a book survived.

8-)



Believe it or not, we actually had a chunk of columbia fall on our street when we lived in Dallas (we moved back to austin in late 05).


The police had the yellow tape and all that for a few hours until someone could come to retrieve it.


Wow. You wouldn't happen to know what section of the shuttle it was from, would you?

8-)



Actually, it was part of the left wing near the fuselage. It wasn't the part that was hit by the foam, though, it was like a conjoined part between the fuselage and the wing, not in the middle of the wing.
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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby Brando14100 » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:25 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081003/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_astronaut_s_diary

Truly amazing that pages of a book survived.

8-)



Believe it or not, we actually had a chunk of columbia fall on our street when we lived in Dallas (we moved back to austin in late 05).


The police had the yellow tape and all that for a few hours until someone could come to retrieve it.


Wow. You wouldn't happen to know what section of the shuttle it was from, would you?

8-)



Actually, it was part of the left wing near the fuselage. It wasn't the part that was hit by the foam, though, it was like a conjoined part between the fuselage and the wing, not in the middle of the wing.


Wow. I'm glad the shuttle doesn't go over NY on landing. Something like that would really bother me.

8-)
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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby tcco94 » Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:14 pm

and remember if a shuttle crashes dont touch the remains ;)

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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby NitroPower » Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:04 pm

and remember if a shuttle crashes dont touch the remains ;)

;D

Why? :-?
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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby Dr.bob7 » Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:17 pm

and remember if a shuttle crashes dont touch the remains ;)

;D

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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby BigTruck » Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:12 pm

Isn't there a ton of radiation as well from certain parts of the shuttle?  I thought I heard something about that back when it crashed...
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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby AMDDDA » Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:25 pm

[quote]Isn't there a ton of radiation as well from certain parts of the shuttle?
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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby Rich H » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:36 am

Isn't there a ton of radiation as well from certain parts of the shuttle?  I thought I heard something about that back when it crashed...

I think there's a poisonous gas, found this in my FSX SSO manual :

After landing, the vehicle stands on the runway for several minutes to permit the fumes from poisonous
hydrazine, used as propellant for attitude control, to dissipate, and for the shuttle fuselage to cool before the
astronauts disembark.
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Re: Incredible, But Sad

Postby homebrewer » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:08 am

You don't ever touch anything at an accident or crash scene so as to not disturb "the facts" as to what happened. A single piece of evidence moved from its original position could confuse or hide the facts such that what really happened may forever remain a secret. The identity of the bombers of the flight that crashed on Lockerbie was determined by a shard of PC board not quite the size of the nail on your pinky finger. Think if people had swarmed over the wreck looking for treasure. This small piece might have been smushed into the ground and lost. Best to leave accident scenes to the professionals...
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