geezerfud ([info]geezerfud) wrote,
@ 2006-09-29 07:37:00
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Well, it looks like the latest round of Let's Move People Around with Rockets hasn't ended in disaster, and I can now obsess about upcoming STS-116, which (if the launch doesn't snuff anybody) could result in permanently shutting down the power on the ISS, or leaving us with a Z-truss solar DIS-array, or, of course, a crew and ship fragged on re-entry.

But this all won't happen until at least December, and I will have given another lab meeting and visited Worcester by then, and so will be feeling a bit relaxed nevertheless. A nice solstice present would be a real treat!

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[info]scottscidmore
2006-09-29 08:30 pm UTC (link)
Remember the success rate in the early days of national space programs. The ka-boom rate was pretty high in those, too.

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[info]geezerfud
2006-10-03 11:59 am UTC (link)
Well, I was mostly only thinking of the latter days of The Shuttle. NASA now needs "no ka-booms" for less than twenty launches, to rid itself of the whole boomdoggle.

When you've elminated launching with stiff-ringed solids and damaging chunks of tumbling debris, Watson, whatever remains, however unexpected, must be the cause of any future shuttle/station ka-boom.

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