Looks like a failed hydraulic pump, which took out its steering capability.
Category Archives: Space
Ten Myths About Columbia
From Jim Oberg.
Ten (And Three) Years Later
Jeff Foust remembers two February-first space-related anniversaries, related to each other.
We Must Move On
Sea Launch
Had an expensive oopsie.
At least they didn’t wreck the launch platform this time. But it’s not helpful for coming out of bankruptcy. I wonder if this is another symptom of the problems that the Russians have been having (yeah, I know that Zenit is Ukrainian, but as Marcia Smith notes, Sea Launch is mostly owned by Energia RSC)? Speaking of which, if Congress was really worried about safety (not to mention non-proliferation), they’d be accelerating commercial crew, and getting us off our dependency on the Russians ASAP.
Columbia’s Last Minutes
The prologue to my book, over at PJMedia.
Actually, I’ll probably expand a little more in the book, though.
NASA’s Mission Is Not Safety
My column, on the tenth anniversary of the Columbia loss, at USA Today.
After Ten Years
Enduring lessons from Wayne Hale.
Unfortunately, the NASA culture is ill suited to take many of them.
America 3.0
There’s a new book
Exploring The Earth
With Google Earth and Kim Komando. I wasn’t aware of the 5000-year-old impact crater. Or any of the other things, really.