On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:26:36 +1000 > Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 February 2003 18:03, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > > > > Given the literal tons of docs that any government project has, you > > > would think that a plan for what to do if there is a possible tile > > > damage would already be set out. As such, any prerequisites (space > > > suites) would be in place. I wonder if any member of the crew was > > > trained in using a space suit. Perhaps it is not a standard thing. > > > > Even had they had the suits in place would they have been told to use > > them, even if they had would they have still survived, probably not. > > Doesn't each shuttle come with an Acme Tile Repair Kit? I guess such repairs > are more tricky than one would imagine, as each tile is specially fitted and > no two are the same. Or so I have heard. And training each crew on complete > shuttle repairs seems less than likely. I guess the space station will need > a shuttle garage where one can change flat tires and all. > > All this said, I still think that NASA's record is quite good. I mean, these > are not production runs on production equipment.
I dunno, i'd say a 40% failure rate is pretty damn awful. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
