Columbia

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sat Feb 1 17:05:01 2003

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Adrian Vickers wrote:
> >I heard on ABC news this afternoon that there had been
> >some external fuel tank insulation knocked off during
> >launch of the Columbia, and it had impacted the wing
> Although that sounds somewhat implausible (how would ABC know, when no-one
> else does?), I wouldn't be entirely surprised if it was the case.

There was a fair amount of NASA mention of it this morning.

> Incidentally, does anyone know if Columbia had been updated to the latest
> flight s/w & h/w? I know there was work on-going to do this, but I've no
> knowledge of what stage they'd got to.

Would a newer version of Windoze have reduced the chances of
blue-screening?
Received on Sat Feb 01 2003 - 17:05:01 GMT