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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (335)	2/4/2003 11:11:04 PM
From: ownstock	Read Replies (1) of 627

NASA owns the best video of stuff falling off...the stuff at launch. And they even had contingency plans for just that sort of thing. They should have scrubbed the launch and returned to the Cape, or gone on to Africa. Neither of which would have resulted in structural failure, as evidenced by the fact they made it to orbit. I don't know about you, but as I watch the video, the amount of material that flies off the underside of the wing is obviously much more than hit it. Someone saw that stuff come off in real time, and should have called range safety to abort the flight. They already admit they made the judgement call, much much later after reviewing the video, that it was OK to have done nothing. That means they knew there was a big risk, and they called a meeting to make management feel better. This reminds me more and more of the Challenger, where management was going to launch unless it could be PROVEN the thing would blow up. So they launched. That correlates with all the propaganda about the NASA family junk...smoke screen for the mission and hardware comes first. They would have you believe the decision was weighted towards scrub unless it could be proven it would get to orbit and return safely. -Own

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