Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

Could the crew have attempted to repair the foam insulation had NASA let them? Could they have prepped and sent up another shuttle in time?

Or did NASA's inflexibility prevent them from accomplishing any of this, leaving them to die?

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>Could the crew have attempted to repair the foam insulation had NASA let them?
They wouldn't be able to do shit about it and it wasn't damaged foam, it was dented wing edge.
The foam caused the damage, the foam that falls from the main orange tank during the launch because shuttle was an overdesigned piece of shit that cost almost 500 million dollars to launch and became a glorified taxi to the ISS after this crash.

Who gives a fuck

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There is a study on "what if we tried scenario". It was possible, but would have required great risk and jumping over red tape so modern NASA would never have the balls to do anything like that.

>glorified taxi to the ISS
Isn't that all it ever was and all it was designed to be?

Incredible. Imagine if Apollo 13 had happened in 2003
>what's that, an explosion on the module? Don't worry about it, it's nothing.
>they land on the moon
>command module runs out of power halfway back and they die horrible deaths

>"You know, there is nothing we can do about damage to the TPS [Thermal Protection System]. If it has been damaged it's probably better not to know. I think the crew would rather not know. Don't you think it would be better for them to have a happy successful flight and die unexpectedly during entry than to stay on orbit, knowing that there was nothing to be done, until the air ran out?"

>design orbiter as a retarded giant fucking space plane
>16 day max life span in orbit, no emergency escape/reentry vehicles, no spare launch vehicle kept ready to go save the shuttle within the 16 days

what a shitshow that NASA is

Not many people mention this, but after Columbia they actually had backup shuttle on the pad during each STS mission, basically doubling the launch costs to almost billion dollars.

was it really prepped and ready to go

it wasn't fueled up but that takes a day and can be done while you're doing rest of the launch prep

> ... ever was ... to be ?
Yes. And checked for triple infinity.

While you're dying I'll be, still alive...

...Still alive...

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Still alive.

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No.
Its life before the accident was more like what it was designed to be, though it had a lot of wasted capability.

I think that was part of the original idea, the Shuttles would be able to turn around fast enough that there would always be one or two ready to launch at any time.
The problem was that the refurbishing took fuckloads longer than they planned for so it just wasn't expedient to run them like that.

None of those people look alike though, most of them have major differences like different brow structure, noses, cheek bone width, and chin shapes

That nigger has a different dental layout and you can see it from that image.

True, we know teeth never shift with age, also blacks can't afford braces or dental modification

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No comment on the fellowshipofthemind.com article? Boring shillery

>his primary information source is ancestry.com
Automatically debunking himself.