RE: [twuug] Space Shuttle Columbia blows up on reentry!

["Shawn M. Jones" <smj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 12:39, Adam Crosby wrote:
> Apparently, the crew ejection system is a hatch on the side of the Shuttle -
> they hook onto a pole, and slide out - triggering their parachutes.
> At Mach18 (it's speed at the moment of lost contact), I don't think there is
> a parachute material available that could survive, let alone the humans
> attached.  The heat around the shuttle at that point of the deorbit burn
> would instantly melt them.
> I just hope this doesn't put as big a damper on the Space program as the
> Challenger did - although I sadly suspect it will :(

Don't we have folks in the International Space Station that have to be
resupplied?

--Shawn M. Jones


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