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NASA - I'm tellin' you it's a sabatoge.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5002825.html
NASA is investigating the apparent sabotage of electronic equipment bound for the international space station aboard the shuttle Endeavour, officials said Thursday.
The damage involves the cutting of wires in a device meant to record and transmit to Mission Control several measurements of stresses to the space station structure, according to NASA.
The equipment is not considered essential to astronaut safety.
William Gerstenmaier, the agency's associate administrator for space operations, said the contractor company responsible for the device reported the damage to the wires of a test version about 10 days ago.
Similar damage later was found inside the version of the device that had been sent to the Florida shuttleport for loading aboard Endeavour. It had not been placed aboard the spacecraft.
Gerstenmaier declined to name the company involved.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the sabotage appeared to have occurred in early June, while the devices were still at Invocon Inc., an electronics firm and Boeing Co. subcontractor in Conroe.
"We don't know if it's one or more people,'' said Kevin Champaigne, an executive at the company, which has about 30 employees.
The damaged device should be repaired in time to fly aboard the shuttle, which is scheduled for liftoff Aug. 7.
NASA officials said they do not know who damaged the equipment or what the motive for sabotage might be.
The disclosure of the sabotage investigation came on an already troubling day for NASA, as it faced questions about a report that shuttle astronauts in at least two instances were launched into space despite warnings that they posed a safety risk by being intoxicated.
Gerstenmaier said he wanted to dispel any suspicion that union machinists who are on strike against the NASA's shuttle prime contractors, United Space Alliance, were involved in the damage to the device.
The strike by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has been under way since mid-June.
The company responsible for the recording device also supplies an external sensor system used aboard the shuttle to detect any impact on the spacecraft's wings from debris.
Gerstenmaier offered assurances that other equipment had not been damaged intentionally.
"This was fairly recent," he said. "We surveyed essentially all of the hardware that was provided by this particular contractor. We have reviewed the perfomance and made sure the hardware is performing exactly the way it is supposed to."
Educator astronaut
Over an 11- to 14-day mission, Endeavour's crew of seven astronauts will expand the international space station with new components and replace a failed steering gyroscope.
Endeavour's crew includes Barbara Morgan, NASA's second educator astronaut.
Morgan, 55, served as the backup to New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, who perished with six others in the 1986 explosion of Challenger.
After returning to her classroom in McCall, Idaho, Morgan joined NASA in 1998 to train as a professional astronaut.
Her duties on the flight will include robot arm operations and cargo transfers.
I hear a lot of stories from this thread that although NASA has been important to this country, they've been doing really shitty work lately, and therefore must DIE. So I thought this was pretty interesting. Now I really believe their scientists are idiots. Now he's going to lose his job, and go to jail!
I'm telling you It's a saaaaaaaaaaaaabooooooooooooootaaaaaaaaage :whistle:
Can anyone explain why NASA should burn as well? There seems to be support for that here.
NASA is investigating the apparent sabotage of electronic equipment bound for the international space station aboard the shuttle Endeavour, officials said Thursday.
The damage involves the cutting of wires in a device meant to record and transmit to Mission Control several measurements of stresses to the space station structure, according to NASA.
The equipment is not considered essential to astronaut safety.
William Gerstenmaier, the agency's associate administrator for space operations, said the contractor company responsible for the device reported the damage to the wires of a test version about 10 days ago.
Similar damage later was found inside the version of the device that had been sent to the Florida shuttleport for loading aboard Endeavour. It had not been placed aboard the spacecraft.
Gerstenmaier declined to name the company involved.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the sabotage appeared to have occurred in early June, while the devices were still at Invocon Inc., an electronics firm and Boeing Co. subcontractor in Conroe.
"We don't know if it's one or more people,'' said Kevin Champaigne, an executive at the company, which has about 30 employees.
The damaged device should be repaired in time to fly aboard the shuttle, which is scheduled for liftoff Aug. 7.
NASA officials said they do not know who damaged the equipment or what the motive for sabotage might be.
The disclosure of the sabotage investigation came on an already troubling day for NASA, as it faced questions about a report that shuttle astronauts in at least two instances were launched into space despite warnings that they posed a safety risk by being intoxicated.
Gerstenmaier said he wanted to dispel any suspicion that union machinists who are on strike against the NASA's shuttle prime contractors, United Space Alliance, were involved in the damage to the device.
The strike by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has been under way since mid-June.
The company responsible for the recording device also supplies an external sensor system used aboard the shuttle to detect any impact on the spacecraft's wings from debris.
Gerstenmaier offered assurances that other equipment had not been damaged intentionally.
"This was fairly recent," he said. "We surveyed essentially all of the hardware that was provided by this particular contractor. We have reviewed the perfomance and made sure the hardware is performing exactly the way it is supposed to."
Educator astronaut
Over an 11- to 14-day mission, Endeavour's crew of seven astronauts will expand the international space station with new components and replace a failed steering gyroscope.
Endeavour's crew includes Barbara Morgan, NASA's second educator astronaut.
Morgan, 55, served as the backup to New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, who perished with six others in the 1986 explosion of Challenger.
After returning to her classroom in McCall, Idaho, Morgan joined NASA in 1998 to train as a professional astronaut.
Her duties on the flight will include robot arm operations and cargo transfers.
I hear a lot of stories from this thread that although NASA has been important to this country, they've been doing really shitty work lately, and therefore must DIE. So I thought this was pretty interesting. Now I really believe their scientists are idiots. Now he's going to lose his job, and go to jail!
I'm telling you It's a saaaaaaaaaaaaabooooooooooooootaaaaaaaaage :whistle:
Can anyone explain why NASA should burn as well? There seems to be support for that here.
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
Shuttles ware out, break, become obsolete fast, explode in a big ball of fire, etc. etc. etc.
Why not switch to something practical like Capsules? Cheap, don't break down and you don't need to keep them maintained, or, you know, keep outsourcing to the Russians.
The second part of your comment is just stupid, however, NASA is currently developing the Orion capsule, intended for missions to the moon. Basically a larger, more advanced version of the Apollo capsules. There was also a craft that got prototyped a decade ago or so that was intended to be vertical landing capable, but on the first test flight one of the feet failed to deploy, and it toppled over.
You do know that they're already doing that, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_%28spacecraft%29
Edit: Beaten. Damn you, matthas
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.[/QUOTE]
You can strike in response to being laid off?
I thought this country had a shortage of mathematicians.
I think it would be more along the lines of 'holy shit there's a barely controlled explosion going on underneath my ass right now, I'm going to fucking die'
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It's just crazy enough to be right. 8-)
nope, 2007 says the byline.
So.. we're supposed to debate whether it is or isn't sabotage for about 18 pages, then someone comes along and posts the results of NASA's investigation?
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