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From: scott@bbxeng.UUCP (Engineering)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Did Challenger happen?
Message-ID: <198@bbxeng.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 16:37:46 GMT
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In article <17591@ut-emx.UUCP> mentat@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett) writes:
>In article <932@brazos.Rice.edu> wasg@diomedes.rice.edu (Eric Salituro) writes:
>>Not at all, in fact a TV movie about the crew of Challenger is in production
>>as we speak. They did some shooting here at JSC a couple of months ago.
>
>Which only goes to show that Americans have extremely poor taste. :-)

I second that.  I have grown rather tired of watching the Challenger explode.
Everytime I see a film clip of a space shuttle anymore, I brace myself for
the explosion.  If it doesn't explode, I think "Well that must've been the
one that made it".

While there are obviously important lessons to learn from the Challenger
accident I don't see the point in wallowing in it.  I don't believe that
a movie about Challenger is seriously intended to "honor" the victims
as much as it is intended to cash in on America's perverse desire to
re-live bad experiences.  Now, if the movie intends to expose the
corruption and bad management that led to the accident - that's a
different matter entirely.  :-)

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