http://patdollard.com/2009/07/after-finally-launching-pieces-fall-off-of-endeavour/ The War Starts Here Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://patdollard.com/2009/07/after-finally-launching-pieces-fall-off-of-endeavour/#comment-492198 Lock and Load Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:01:33 +0000 http://patdollard.com/?p=82985#comment-492198 The shuttle flights have been at risk for years due to environmental standards which do not allow for freon based insulation, which sticks better and falls off less than the enviro-friendly crap they use now... :roll: this article seems to sum it up well... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/959251/posts Shuttle astronauts are taking their lives in their hands every time they lift off, but this just seems to make the risks for disaster even higher. :evil: Consider this worst case scenario... shuttle goes up, insulation falls off, causing damage which will not allow shuttle to return safely. Second shuttle has to go up for rescue, then it also falls victim to insulation damage... :shock: Sounds crazy, but why take unnecessary risk just to placate some enviro-whackos - isn't the life of the astronauts more important :evil: :???: The shuttle flights have been at risk for years due to environmental standards which do not allow for freon based insulation, which sticks better and falls off less than the enviro-friendly crap they use now… this article seems to sum it up well…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/959251/posts
Shuttle astronauts are taking their lives in their hands every time they lift off, but this just seems to make the risks for disaster even higher. Consider this worst case scenario… shuttle goes up, insulation falls off, causing damage which will not allow shuttle to return safely. Second shuttle has to go up for rescue, then it also falls victim to insulation damage… Sounds crazy, but why take unnecessary risk just to placate some enviro-whackos – isn’t the life of the astronauts more important

]]> http://patdollard.com/2009/07/after-finally-launching-pieces-fall-off-of-endeavour/#comment-491786 GRIZZ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:40:13 +0000 http://patdollard.com/?p=82985#comment-491786 Must have been the mexican laborers they hired."Rivets,we dont need no stinking rivets" Must have been the mexican laborers they hired.”Rivets,we dont need no stinking rivets”

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