Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
"Investigators looking into Saturday's high-altitude disintegration of the shuttle Columbia are starting to focus on a handful of critical systems within the spacecraft whose failure could most easily have led to the catastrophe, NASA officials and aeronautical engineers said yesterday," write Rick Weiss and Rob Stein in today's Washington Post. "Those systems range in complexity from some with no moving parts, such as the heat-protecting tiles, to the highly sophisticated computer, sensor and rocket-control systems that comprise the brains and "inner ear" of the spacecraft, detecting and at times compensating for changes in gravitational or inertial pull." posted by micah holmquist at 2/03/2003 08:48:00 AM
