Atlantis return put off amid worry over safe re-entry

Sathesh Sakthivel

Nasa on Tuesday decided to delay the return of Atlantis by two days amid concerns over some damage on the body of the space shuttle. A tear in the thermal blanket of the shuttle has caused apprehension among experts over the safe return of Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams. Atlantis had suffered the four-inch tear during the liftoff on Friday. Clickety[^] We Pray god for Sunitha Williams Safe return. Since we have already Lost Kalpana Chawla.

Regards, Satips.:rose:

Dario Solera

Satips wrote:

We Pray god for Sunitha Williams Safe return.

What about the other members of the crew? :suss:

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Marcus J Smith

They're not Indian, DUH!

CleaKO

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Sathesh Sakthivel

We have to Pray for all the Members in the Crew. But Especially Sunitha, Because we have already lost Kalpana from our Country.

Regards, Satips.:rose:

Dario Solera

Satips wrote:

But Especially Sunitha, Because we have already lost Kalpana from our Country.

I don't get why you have to pray especially for one of the members. What about the crew of the Columbia[^]?

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Sathesh Sakthivel

As of now only She is returning now but the other two guys are staying there itself it seems. So only i said Especially Sunitha.

Regards, Satips.:rose:

Dario Solera

Satips wrote:

As of now only She is returning now but the other two guys are staying there itself it seems.

Really? I didn't understand. Sorry. :rose:

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ednrgc

What an idiot. There are more members on the team other than Sunita. Pray for them all.

Dario Solera

It seems that only she (her?) is returning at this moment...

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Sathesh Sakthivel

We have to Pray for all the members in the crew. Sorry for mentioning only her.

Regards, Satips.:rose:

hairy_hats

She's flying the Shuttle back solo?

NormDroid

Back pedalling.

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Sebastian Schneider

She will most definitely not be the only one onboard the shuttle. AFAIR, she is not qualified to land the shuttle.

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Nish Nishant

CleaKO wrote:

They're not Indian, DUH!

Sunita is of Indian origin but she is a US citizen who was born in the States, grew up in the States, and is married to an American. She is Slovenian on her mother's side. So even her Indian-ness is 50% :-) I doubt if she'd call herself Indian (other than by origin). But in the States, if you start tracing origins, there are not going to be that many people who can say they are 100% of American origin.

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If she's hot, I pray extra special for her safe return. Edit - Well, I googled her, and unless I see her naked (and she has exceptional qualities), she's on her own...

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Marcus J Smith

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Sunita is of Indian origin but she is a US citizen who was born in the States, grew up in the States, and is married to an American. She is Slovenian on her mother's side. So even her Indian-ness is 50%

I was just stating the obviousness of Satips reasoning.

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

But in the States, if you start tracing origins, there are not going to be that many people who can say they are 100% of American origin.

This is true, if you were to call the Native Americans true Americans then hardly anyone here is of 100% American origin, why I am of Scottish/German/English/Native American origin.

CleaKO

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Lost User

Let's all pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that he touch the space shuttle with His Noodly Appendage and grant them a safe return.

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El Corazon

Dario Solera wrote:

It seems that only she (her?) is returning at this moment

only her, "of the ones Satips cares about." The full crew of the shuttle will most likely be returning, there is no finalized emergency plan to evac to the space-station. They could, but it would so over-burden oxygen and food (mostly oxygen and CO2 filters) that everyone could die anyhow. There are some emergency plans in place, but evac to minimal crew would take very careful planning and massive launches of cargo rockets as well as cooperation with another nation for the return of the evacuated crew -- since shuttles are all the USA has. Not impossible, but highly unlikely, especially given current international feelings toward the USA. That means a full, or nearly full shuttle will be returning, at some time. It has limited orbital capability and must come down eventually. It may mean that they land at Edwards, or White Sands Space Harbor, I haven't checked on the status of Edward's landing strip lately to know if there even is a choice. The primary reason for a change in return destination is the worst-case scenario, if there is a break up, they want it over the pacific. They cannot "wing it" on a glide-path from the west coast to the east coast. Entering atmosphere over New Mexico/Texas border means a similar break-up over highly populated Texas if the worst should happen.

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Jay_se

All the Indian friends probably very familiar with the Indian Originated Sunita Williams. All the national news papers in India were highlighted Sunitha Willams. Thats y, Satips may take some extra care on her (I believe). Anyway we have to pray for all.

Regards, Jay :)

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