shuttle disaster

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:26:36 +1000
Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> 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.

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