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Originally posted by Omega_M The escape velocity for earth is about 6.8 miles/sec. The space shuttle needs very high tangential velocity when it's circling the earth to prevent itself from falling back.

ok, it's making sense now. thanks

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Oh ffs i'm ten minutes late!

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Originally posted by AustralianGQ im a failure with females...i will be the real 40 year old virgin i guarentee you

over an hour late actually

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Originally posted by Sunsnail over an hour late actually

Shhhhh! Stop making me feel worse

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Originally posted by Lilith Hasn't blow up yet

let's see an aussie space shuttle or even a commercial rocket first and then maybe we can talk about these things. yeah ?

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Originally posted by twilightki : It feels like something you'd listen to at 4 in the morning, or listen to in your car while you're going in a tunnel.

What's with those space shuttles ? They have been flying over a couple of decades, and they never had the problems they are having now. It seems as now days they are flying to space to repair their thermal shields. I mean come on 2 times in a row ?

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the space shuttle has always had problems. Parts of the shuttle were designed in a "top-bottom" manner with NASA solving issues as and when they became apparent. I read somewhere that the shuttles have flown home with problems far worse than what are being identified these days. But it takes the loss of a vehicle and the lives of a few astronauts to make the agency wake up to these risks. They have now become hyper sensitive to the tile-damage issue and repair just about any and every thing that gets brought to their attention.

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Originally posted by twilightki : It feels like something you'd listen to at 4 in the morning, or listen to in your car while you're going in a tunnel.

What prompted stren's post? Did something happen to Endeavour?

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A close-up view of the damaged tile on the underside of the Space Shuttle Endeavour during a focused inspection of the shuttle's heat shield while docked with the International Space Station August 12, 2007 in Space. The inspection was made using the shuttle's robotic arm and 50-foot-long Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS).

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Originally posted by twilightki : It feels like something you'd listen to at 4 in the morning, or listen to in your car while you're going in a tunnel.

Last edited by Omega_M on Aug-13-2007 at 21:11

I touched a tile that goes on the shuttle. Its very brittle.

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Originally posted by twilightki : It feels like something you'd listen to at 4 in the morning, or listen to in your car while you're going in a tunnel.

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Space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the international space station a day early on Sunday, as NASA kept a wary eye on Hurricane Dean. Space agency managers worried that the storm would move toward Houston and force them to evacuate to a smaller-staffed makeshift control center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Endeavour crew prepared to land on Tuesday as a precaution.

Hurricane Dean is making it's impact felt in space.

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Originally posted by twilightki : It feels like something you'd listen to at 4 in the morning, or listen to in your car while you're going in a tunnel.