February 10, 2003
THE PLOT THICKENS:
Military Radar Saw Unidentified Object Near Shuttle Columbia (AFP, Feb 09, 2003)Military radar picked up images of a small object still of unknown origin near the shuttle Columbia on the second day of its fatal mission, a NASA spokesman said Sunday."It's only raw data coming in. We don't know whether it was a space debris that passed by the space shuttle or something that came off from the shuttle," Bill Jeffs said at Houston's Johnson Space Center.
Hopefully it was a meteorite hitting the shuttle, just to shut all the critics up. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 10, 2003 8:14 AM
Comments
That wouldn't shut al Qaeda up, they would just claim that Allah was their anti-satellite technology.
Posted by: pj at February 10, 2003 10:01 AMWell, they do have the Ka'ba.
Posted by: oj at February 10, 2003 10:11 AMIt seems unlikely to me that anything that struck the
shuttle while it was in orbit would not have been noticed by the crew. F=MV, after all, and there was plenty of V.