Comment on February 2016 Media Thread

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 04:45:04 GMT

A better title would have been "what a jaded ex-academic with no relevant domain knowledge thinks happened at NASA during the last Columbia mission."

Yes, they didn't launch Atlantis on short notice, which was probably in hindsight a mistake. But Greg's not even wrong when he asserts that "(the combined Atlantis/Columbia crew) could have sat on the (expletive) floor and been alright." The shuttle went through a complicated sequence of re-entry maneuvers to land safely. It's not just 3g in one direction until touchdown.

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