Spaceflight 🚀Feb 1, 2023

#BBC #Columbia #SpaceShuttle Investigation https://youtu.be/2eTRaJGDe-8

'You know, there is nothing we can do about #damage to the TPS. If it has been damaged it’s probably better not to know. I think the crew would rather not know. Don’t you think it would be better for them to have a happy successful flight and die unexpectedly during entry than to stay on #orbit, knowing that there was nothing to be done, until the air ran out ?'”
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150130-what-caused-the-columbia-disaster

#HumanSpaceflightSecurity #SpaceMaintenance #SpaceAgency #SpacePolitics

Columbia Shuttle Investigation | Last Flight of Space Shuttle Columbia | BBC

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Feb 3, 2023
As #Columbia thundered into #orbit, #Atlantis' main engines had already been installed. So an in-orbit rescue was at least #feasible. Mission planners believed they could stretch Columbia's supply to cover a total of 30 days ⌛ https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/the-audacious-rescue-plan-that-might-have-saved-space-shuttle-columbia-2/2/
The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia

The untold story of the rescue mission that could have been NASA's finest hour.

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If they never canceled the HL-20 rescue would have been strait forwards.
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@Luna or if they had eject seats https://techhub.social/@spaceflight/110362246226666025
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#CNN 📆 December 2017 The #Buran https://youtu.be/ASQl2b0-yDQ also had #emergency eject seats 💺 for all crew members 👨‍🚀 👩‍🚀 (absent on the #US shuttles) and was free from the specific design flaws that contributed to the destruction 💥 of two shuttles in flight, the #Challenger in 📆 1986 and the #Columbia in 📆 2003.https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/baikonur-buran-soviet-space-shuttle/index.html #SpaceShuttle #SpaceHistory

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