this flat out amazes me that they are even revisiting this event
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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia cited problems with the crew's helmets, spacesuits and restraints, which resulted in "lethal trauma" to the seven astronauts aboard.
Columbia crew members were killed when the shuttle broke apart upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
1 of 2 But the report also acknowledged that "the breakup of the crew module ... was not survivable by any currently existing capability."
The spacecraft broke up while re-entering Earth's atmosphere near the end of its mission on February 1, 2003.
The NASA report found the astronauts knew for about 40 seconds that they did not have control of the shuttle before they likely were knocked unconscious as Columbia broke apart around them. Watch more details from the report »
The report also found that while crew members were wearing their pressurized suits, one astronaut did not have on a helmet, three were not wearing gloves and none lowered the visors before the module lost cabin pressure. One astronaut also was not seated...
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Live and learn. I guess the helmets all worked fine until something catastrophic happened. Faulty helmets or not, those astronauts weren't going to survive that no matter what.
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This report has a ton of euphemisms.
They were on a ship that went 4th of July while reentering the atmosphere at thousand of miles per hour...damn those faulty helmets!
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For real. If somebody told to manufacture a helmet that would save the life of an astronaut on orbit re-entry I'd tell them to go fuck themselves. How stupid.
For real. If somebody told to manufacture a helmet that would save the life of an astronaut on orbit re-entry I'd tell them to go fuck themselves. How stupid.
oh yeah man, totally. its like if some yo-yo came to me asking me to design a module for the quantum bending of mathematical grids in time and space. i mean, fuck those assholes, amirite?
This reminds me of a news report I saw a while back. Some kid sledded into a road and got run over by a truck. Obviously he died. The anchor ended the report with "Police have told wjz that the child was not wearing a helmet."
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bart d. wrote:
This reminds me of a news report I saw a while back. Some kid sledded into a road and got run over by a truck. Obviously he died. The anchor ended the report with "Police have told wjz that the child was not wearing a helmet."
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bart d. wrote:
This reminds me of a news report I saw a while back. Some kid sledded into a road and got run over by a truck. Obviously he died. The anchor ended the report with "Police have told wjz that the child was not wearing a helmet."
wait, you're supposed to wear a helmet while sledding?
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dkfan9 wrote:
bart d. wrote:
This reminds me of a news report I saw a while back. Some kid sledded into a road and got run over by a truck. Obviously he died. The anchor ended the report with "Police have told wjz that the child was not wearing a helmet."
wait, you're supposed to wear a helmet while sledding?
You don't really need to unless there's a six lane highway at the bottom of your sledding hill.
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The report also found that while crew members were wearing their pressurized suits, one astronaut did not have on a helmet, three were not wearing gloves and none lowered the visors before the module lost cabin pressure. One astronaut also was not seated...
How the fuck do they know this stuff???
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