I admit I may be wrong- going from memory as I guess we all are without transcripts or recordings.... but I as I recall it I am more certain than not that some mention was made of the damage and that it was made light of.... though of course I accept that it cannot yet be established what part it played in the disaster- that is the big question! I wonder whether anyone made recordings of the NASA-TV coverage- as I have the freeware version of the player I was not in a position to do so, but I think it might be possible with a paid version? Robert. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Mehring" <m.m@gmx.de> To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 7:59 AM Subject: Re: Shuttle attitude MET day 3 > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:15:49 +1300, you ("Robert Holdsworth" > <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz>) wrote: > > >I remember hearing it mentioned on NASA-TV and as I recall it you are > >correct. > >But bear in mind that we were also told (probably round the same time!) > >that the damage was not significant........ > > Uhm, no. AFAIC we were told that it wasn't _considered_ significant. And I > would absolutely agree to that assessment. Evaluating the ET debris impact > of that one piece could not have come to the conclusion that there was > substantial damage to the left wing that would result in loss of vehicle > upon reentry. Even at this point, knowing what we have learned by now, it > is extremely difficult to make a connection between that one piece and the > symptoms that showed up during reentry. There's a lot things in there that > simply do not make sense. The chances that that one piece was the root > cause are, as far as I'm concerned, marginal. > > > CU! Markus > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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