[rescue] Re: [geeks] Crap! Not again...

[Joacim Melin]

Though I no nothing about space shuttles, I wonder if the airforce 
would use an aircraft in active duty built 1981 ?  As far as I know, 
the Columbia was built around that time, but I might be wrong in both 
cases.

And as far as the theories that this is a terrorist act - try taking an 
aircraft down that's flying at a high altitude like the Columbia was at 
a speed of 20000km/h.  I don't buy it - I think this is an accident, 
pure and simple. A really unfortunate one at that.

joacim

"You can tell how desperate they are by counting the number of times 
they say "innovate" in their press releases."

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On Saturday, Feb 1, 2003, at 20:44 Europe/Stockholm, Kris Kirby wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chad Fernandez wrote:
>>> 3) Colombia is the oldest shuttle (Challenger was, until it went).
>>
>> Columbia was the first shuttle, I ever heard about.  I thought the
>> Challenger was #2.
>
> Not to pick at nits, but if I remember my shuttle literature right (the
> press pack contains a flip-notebook of every mission), Enterprise came
> first, but was merely an aerodynamic model. Then Challenger, as another
> model. Finally, Columbia was build from the ground up as a shuttle, and
> Challenger was then converted into a regular shuttle.
>
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