Tuesday, March 4
Nemesis Follows Hubris, DIY or Not
Columbia was too heavy to reach that orbit.
What was really going on was hubris, and that deathly fear of damage to public image. Was there some reason that the Columbia went to an orbit from which it couldn't reach the ISS as easily as it could de-orbit, its only real hope (and still not a good one) of a rescue? Would an ISS rendezvous orbit have been ... cowardly? Underconfident?
Columbia was too heavy to reach that orbit.
