And subsequently impacted the orbiter left wing. Experts have reviewed the highspeed photography, and there is no concern for Rcc Or Tile damage. We have seen this same phenomenon on several other flights and theres absolutely no concern for entry. That is all for now it is a pleasure working with you every day. So, they saw something. Theyre taking care of it. This email was too short, too sweet, too easy. Okay. Good Morning And Welcome to the mmt. Day nine. Rodneys team presented their analysis. I wasnt presenting the results of our analysis
The mission aboard the Orbiter Columbia is 24 seven science marathon. In all there are more than 59 experiments my husband rick was the commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia there were my wildest dreams so i think id ever made an astronaut, much less mary one. Yeah. So he told me he said that he wanted since he was four years old, he wanted to be an astronaut. My name is Rick Husband im the commander vsts, one of seven. Were going to be fine. Uh, 16 day science mission. I was i think probably ten or 11 i knew it was a big Incharge Position and that he would be the leader of the team you think . So something like buzz lightyear, you start command, like, wow, dads the commander of the shuttle okay, lets do
It didnt hit the orbiter, so it was no effect to the flight. The management team, they analyzed it and came up with the conclusion that no safety of Flight Issue existed. We dodged a bullet on that one. Heres your warning, and you only get one. A special team was forming, and i was told that i would be on it. The Mission Management wanted to know how bad is it no damage, minimal Damage Or Grave damage. In that room on the first meeting, there were probably 12 to 15 people. They were the best experts in different fields, but all we knew was this was foam and it hit the left wing. But where on the left wing
On the best information that we had at the time. Nobody wanted to do any harm to anyone. If a bunch of things went really right and they identified very early on and got images early on and everything went about perfectly, just maybe there could have been a rescue mission. But its questionable whether you could get the other orbiter, which would have been atlantis in this case, processed and out to the pad in time without putting that crew at serious risk. We would have had to pull together this huge effort in the eleventh hour to figure out how to fly one shuttle next to the other to conduct an operation that youd never trained or prepared for. It was not in the art of the possible given what we knew. The one tool we could have tried to look at was changing the Way Entry is done, trying to change how it enters the atmosphere
of course william lai s victory speech last night, the ruling party has secured a third, a record unprecedented term in power. but it wasn t a landslide. they lost the majority in parliament. that will be a different experience for them. but what is going to stay the same is their stance with china, their policies towards beijing because william lai has vowed to maintain the status quo, and that is asserting s taiwan s self governing fans moving away from china s orbiter closer to the united states. this is increasingly angered beijing and of course in the recent months we have seen beijing ramp up its military presence around the island, which raised the fears of this threat and potential conflict. there are different variations of anxiety among the voters that i have been speaking to. we have all heard from china reacting, saying again, taiwan as part of china, there is only one china in the world. interestingly,