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To: Yogizuna who wrote (373)	2/5/2003 8:59:59 PM
From: ownstock	Read Replies (1) of 627

Prediction: even the lowest possible head will not roll. Not one of the managers that really made it impossible to abort the mission will even get yelled at. Lesson: Within NASA, the only safety system that can do its job is an computer that examines all the data in real time, and triggers an automatic abort. Then nobody has to say "I did it". The program can be blessed by a committee, so everyone is safe. No stress, God bless! Full disclosure: my father was Range Safety Officer at Vandenberg AFB in the good old days (60's), and I know he had the guts to hit the kill button more than once. Once it happened twice in one week! It eventually cost him a heart attack from the pressure: he took a lot of the blame for launch failures. The important thing was in those days there were no humans aboard, and it was the range (and the surrounding settlements like Santa Maria and Lompoc) that had to be protected. With the shuttle, there needs to be an Astronaut Safety Officer with balls and authority to abort the mission if there is doubt the Astronauts will return safely. Not some damn committee. -Own

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