/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12704195
if the tile next to it would have gotten knocked off it would have exposed aluminium which would have just combusted from the heat. the space shittle was a death trap

>>12174883
In the history of spaceflight there have been 196 manned capsule missions and 135 shuttle missions. Of the 196 capsule missions, 0 have failed because of reentry problems, even on Mercury and Vostok when we really didn't know what we were doing. Of the shuttle missions we had Columbia get destroyed on reentry and Atlantis only got saved by a miracle on STS-27. Capsules are much easier to do safely.

>Were it not for congress and air force interference, could space shuttle be safer?

No, because ultimately the shuttle's safety issues were caused by side-mounting, which is what NASA wanted.

>>12148233
imagine the smell

>>12058329
>challenger disaster occurs
>2 years later STS-27 breaks apart during reentry
>cabin video of Gibson cursing out mission control is leaked lel
>shuttle program canceled
>NASA budget severely reduced
>no human spaceflight for years/decades
>ISS never happens
>cool deepspace probes and rovers don't happen
>SpaceX never happens due to no NASA contracts
>only launches are military launches on Titans and Atlas rockets
Lmao we dodged the worst timeline FYI

>>11872535
haha dont worry about it bro

>One report describes the crew as "infuriated" that Mission Control seemed unconcerned.[10][11] When Commander Gibson saw the damage he thought to himself, "We are going to die",[2] and did not believe that the shuttle would survive reentry; if instruments indicated that the shuttle was disintegrating, he planned to "tell mission control what I thought of their analysis" in the remaining seconds before his death.[1] Upon landing, the magnitude of the damage to the shuttle astonished NASA; over 700 damaged tiles were noted, and one tile was missing altogether. The missing tile had been located over the steel mounting plate for the L-band antenna, perhaps preventing a burn-through of the sort that would ultimately doom Columbia in 2003.[8]
lol