0 Question: if a spaceshuttle crashed to land 5 minutes after setting off what would happen Keywords: crash, land, spaceshuttle Asked by joso to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 25 Mar 2011 in Categories: General.
David Pyle answered on 25 Mar 2011:
The space shuttle is designed to glide, so even only five minutes after launch, if there was time to jettison the huge fuel tanks, it might still be possible for the shuttle to land relatively safely.
Probash Chowdhury answered on 25 Mar 2011:
This very thing sadly happened in 2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster
I’m sure if there was time to shed the fuel tanks it wouldn’t have had such a tragic ending.
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