Envoyée le mardi 30 décembre 2008 14:13:38 par AssociatedPress
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A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to 'lethal trauma' as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts. (Dec. 30)
The camera filming in the beginning was from a TADS system. Target Acquisition and Designation Sights. Whats up with that? Those are systems used by Apache attack hellicopters..
I also always wondered why they couldn't come up with a way to slow the vehicle re-entering the earth's atmosphere. Much, if not most of the danger of all this is the speed that occurs and the resulting heat when the shuttle is coming back into the planet's atmosphere. If there were a way to somehow slow the descent it would eliminate most of this from ever happening. But I guess there's just no such method of slowing the vehicle the way we are thinking here....
im thinking it would be because of gravity. the rockets push the shuttle towards the earth and gravity does the rest. this is just an "educated guess/hypothesis" though, if its wrong then someone else can tell us :P
Maybe if they reentered atmosphere in the suit alone? I mean, they are traveling at thousands of miles per hour, but the mass of a person is way smaller than the shuttle, so the slow down could be gentle.
You´re right. The only disintegration of the ship must lead to a violent deceleration, causing immediate and deadly traumas to the astronauts´ bodies. We are speaking of a very hard slow down of about 1000 Km/hr only in the first seconds. Only that moment was a big crash itself.
The sad irony is its these lowlife's making jokes that these heroes were serving to try and push mankind forward - makes you wonder why anyone bothers - so many shitheads in the species!