QUOTE(Mr_Merlin @ Jul 28 2005, 05:32 AM)
mmmm .... there was no problems with shuttles pre 123 ... now this one has a problem which was supposedly solved .....
Ever hear of Challenger??? 7 people dying in an explosion would seem to me to be a bit of a pre 123 problem!
While some of these ideas may be interesting the above quote makes no sense.
Here are some facts
-- Jan. 27, 1967: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee die when a fire sweeps their command module during a ground test at Kennedy Space Center.
-- April 24, 1967: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became thefirst person to die in a space mission when his Soyuz I spacecraftcrashes on return to Earth.
-- June 29, 1971: Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev die during re-entry of their Soyuz 11 spacecraft after 24 days in an orbiting space laboratory.
-- Jan. 28, 1986: The space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven astronauts aboard, including Christa McAuliffe, intended to be the first teacher in space.
-- Feb. 1, 2003: Space shuttle Columbia breaks apart in flamesabout 60,900 meters over Texas, 16 minutes before it was supposed to touch down in Florida. All seven aboard were killed. They were:William McCool, Rick Husband, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla,David Brown, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut.
I am not opposed to conspiracies but too often we develop them on little or no real facts. The above facts may indeed help to hold up the conspiracy of preventing astronauts from revealing information but the idea that there were no previous problems is ludicrous.
This post has been edited by chaoscrowley37: Jul 28 2005, 10:52 AM