--- Roger Twitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2/1/03 11:50:09 AM, Steve Eisenberg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Thought I'd let you know. > > The only decently > educated anaysis I've read/heard suggested > from photos that a wing may have come off
I heard the feed from NASA in the seconds before they lost contact, mentioning a problem with the tire pressure telemetry. Also hearing the reports of heat-shield tiles falling off during the launch, I'd imagine perhaps the tires became extremely overheated and overpressured during re-entry and perhaps exploded, damaging the gear-doors. Going that fast, any kind of structural stress would be amplified hugely. If the gear doors came off at that point, I could see the entire airframe disintegrating around them quickly. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
