Re: [ERPS] [ikluft@thunder.sbay.org: [SAT-L] shuttle disaster]

[Pierce Nichols]

At 09:35 AM 2/1/2003 -0800, Jerry Durand wrote:

At 09:20 AM 2/1/2003, you wrote:

Was that meant for the list? It only went to me. I have read that a
piece of insulating foam broke off of the external tank and is believed
to have struck the left wing. Damage to the TPS could have resulted in a
burn-through as well. The engineers at NASA didn't seem to think it
would be a problem and they flew their normal reentry trajectory. So I
guess now we have two possibilities.

That was meant for the list, I keep forgetting that the ERPS list doesn't have the right headers on it.

I heard about the insulation, too. But, apparently they lost contact with the shuttle at 9am right when those power units were turned on. I believe they are turned on before the insulation would matter.

If they were at 200,000 feet, wouldn't that be at the tail of the blackout period, or shortly afterwards?

-p


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