OT - Columbia

[Epaminondas]

Consider checking out:

Sensor Wire Diagrams and Shuttle Photo -> "+ View the diagrams" at the bottom of the Columbia page on the NASA Web site.

The PDF shows the temperature gauges overheating and blinking out, over time, one by one.

Kinda interesting.

Kinda spooky.

Kinda sad.
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Edit: Odd - I can no longer find it.  They seem to have taken it down.
 
 [ 02-13-2003, 08:26 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

[sandbox]

Thanks for the link Epaminondas,    I‘m really amazed at the amount of film they have received form folks out there. Here in Florida the Shuttle is kinda like the Full Moon, it’s there, except it’s a little noisier. I can watch it take off from my house and I’m about 150 mile (the way the crow flies) from the launch pad. As a matter of fact my better half was watching that flight and remarked that it was brighter than she had seen before. I said it’s probably the weather, moisture, lack there of, or something? Every time it returns to to the Space Coast it passes over head, the sonic boom is heard for hundreds of mile. We don’t even take pictures anymore because it became such a ordinary occurrence around here. It’s not so ordinary anymore.  
 
 [ 02-15-2003, 03:42 AM: Message edited by: sandbox ]

[Epaminondas]

Sandbox,

You are welcome.

I enjoyed my years in Florida, as well.

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Found the << Columbia Sensor Wire Diagrams >> PDF again, halfway down this
NASA Reources page.  I expect that they may switch it around again somewhere else - the NASA web pages have been pretty active lately.

The Wire Diagram PDF, as you page through it, shows visually what happened as it happened more clearly than I have seen via any other source.

Oh - NASA is currently still estimating a one in 250 chance of catastrophe per shuttle flight. They continue to say that "safety is job one."  All as per current (yesterday's) reports.

The actual stats thus far, however, are one in 56 (two shuttles down for the total of 113 flights).

I guess that means that the next 637 flights (750 - 113 = 637) will be trouble free.

I feel better already.

Regards,

Epaminondas
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Space Oddity
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 [ 02-15-2003, 09:33 AM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

[jepinto]

quote:  Space Oddity

Strangely enough....I seldom listen to the car radio, but had it on that morning.  And that song was playing.  Shut down the car, went to work, and the TV had the disaster on.

Some DJ has a peculiar sense of irony or a really peculiar art of timing.