They also have managed to produce component for the ISS and have kept MIR in orbit for the longest time too.

Freaky stuff
 

http://forums.delphiforums.com/EviLO...ges?msg=2592.1

If you read the first few entries, you will see that this is not a hoax.

wow....that is really really weird.!!!

That is really weird. Who would have thought..........

:ahh:

Weired.

Want to know something wierd, the Space Shuttle exploded with the first Isreali over Palestine, Texas. :yikes:

:ahh: :ahh:

More Weird.

Then you look back to the Challenger and it exploded with the first teacher.

And the first astronauts we lost was the crew of Apollo I, the first manned mission to the moon, during a test there was a fire in the command module that killed them all.

I feel very sorry for those people and their families that were affected...

... but otherwise, move on! Just because the space program spends billions of dollars and this is widely televised doesn't mark it so important that it's worthy of so much discussion. All we can do is feel sorry and speculate what happened. More than 7 people die everyday of accidents but there's nothing like live CNN coverage for them. The reason I'm saying this is cause I got pretty tired of all the 9/11 stuff... Close to 10k people die everyday of AIDs but it's not publicized because it's looked down upon.

But yeah, sorry to the families and to the rest of people, move on. Failing once every 20 years is good on my record.

That is a ridiculous argument. Sure, millions of people in the world die each day, and tens of thousands of them die of A.I.D.S., but their deaths are not especially newsworthy when compared to a disaster in a manned spaceflight. The first deaths of astronauts during re-entry in the American space program is news; the death of yet another 10k A.I.D.S. patients is not news.

Ah, but is it worthy of ALL news coverage? For two whole days? I agree with Mr. Coffee, enough is enough. Everyone knows we're investigating it, and will find the cause if we can, and there's really nothing else to be done about it. All we can do is try to figure out what happened, and continue with our space program.

And the public does NOT need to be inundated with the lack of data or the abundance of admittedly baseless speculation.

*We now return to our regularly scheduled premonitions of Doom*

Are they worthy of news coverage? No, they are not sensational. The media works on sensationalism, folks. I agree with monsieur

NASA is one of our biggest contributors. My heart goes out to all the families, friends, and coworkers of the lost persons. Hopefully manned space exploration will not stop after what happened. And if it is, there is more for us robotics people. My thoughts goes out to those who were lost.

If you can judge whose deaths are more important than others, than you are above us all. But since you can't, you're very selfish. To me, seven nasa crew members dying is just as horrible as people dying a long drawed out death due to AIDs, but I can't judge myself which is worse and which deserves constant news coverage. You should consider taking that comment out. Any person here who has friends or knows people afflicted by cancer, AIDs, or HIV will not like what you've said at all.