Shuttle Atlantis suffered similar accident as Columbia
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MKSheppard
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I thought the only windows open was halfway to orbit, allowing them toSea Skimmer wrote: Actually its possibul to jettison them and the main fuel tank very early in a launch, the shuttle then glides back to base. But the time window is less then one minute IIRC, after liftoff.
reach landing strips in the Azores and Asia?
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Problems problems concerning the weight, yes.aerius wrote: Not to mention the Ti being a good conductor of heat and transfering all that heat directly to the shuttle. Can you say "tile burn-through"?
But them being efficient conductors of heat? Uhm, the entire reason Columbia
broke up wasn't because of extreme heat, but because there was a damaged
tile allowing the gasses entry into the interior wing.
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Perhaps you missed the part where their budget got cut....kojikun wrote:You'd think they'd have thought of that but noooo.
Sufficient funding would prove to be a massive hinderance to refit and repairs now wouldn't it?
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They have several emergancy landing locations around the world for differant stages of lift-off. If you would want to return to launch site, you need to do right after lauch, otherwise you would need to go to another landing site.MKSheppard wrote:I thought the only windows open was halfway to orbit, allowing them toSea Skimmer wrote: Actually its possibul to jettison them and the main fuel tank very early in a launch, the shuttle then glides back to base. But the time window is less then one minute IIRC, after liftoff.
reach landing strips in the Azores and Asia?
As for fixing the Columbia. The external tank on the Columbia was a new "enviornmentally friendly" version that had been in use for several years. Foam had broken off of them before, but never like the Columbia. They need to go back to useing the old style external tanks.
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