From: Artillo5@cs.com
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 15:10:57 MST
In a message dated 2/1/2003 12:43:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
thespike@earthlink.net writes:
> Well, hmm, that sounds implausible.
> Is this just an attempt to prevent looting/souveniring of the flight
> recorder etc?
I was watching yesterday and a reporter asked about if the shuttle had a
"black box" flight recorder and the official said that it didn't have one.
How many millions of dollars the thing was worth and they don't have BLACK
BOXES??? That seems very strange to me, and I know that they have a
continuous stream of data coming down through telemetry, but STILL?
Also, doesn't the shuttle have some sort of emergency eject system? Of
course, if they were at too high an altitude, or the explosion was too sudden
for a crew reaction, this wouldn't be useable in any event, but I would think
that the designers would have tried to account for such occurrances. Maybe
making the entire crew cabin explosion-proof, sealed off from the rest of the
craft during liftoff and reentry, and maybe a redundant chute/airbag kind of
system? Does anyone have info on this?
Arti
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