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From: hhd0@GTE.COM (Horace Dediu)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Did Challenger happen?
Message-ID: <7471@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 25 Aug 89 19:34:15 GMT
References: <1904@brwa.inmos.co.uk>
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In article <1904@brwa.inmos.co.uk>, conor@inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill) writes:
> the Challenger disaster. I've also heard since that it is illegal
> to show the film of the disaster in America. Is this true?
> 
> Are all Americans ostriches (heads in the sand), or just NASA?
> Conor O'Neill, Software Group, INMOS Ltd. UK: conor@inmos.co.uk
> Disclaimer: All views are my own,         US: @col.hp.com:conor@inmos-c
>             not those of INMOS.
> "It's state-of-the-art" "But it doesn't work!" "That is the state-of-the-art".

Are all Britons ostriches?
Illegal?  I suggest our British friend remove his head from the sand.  This
country has no such laws.  I can invite the world over to my house to watch
the Challenger disaster on TV.  It's been replayed thousands of times on
nationwide TV.  This is not the People's Rebulic!  Who ever gave you this
notion?  Statist totalitarians of the far left fringe?

That NASA will not advertise its failures is their business.  If I were in
charge of KSC I would not have a "disaster" exhibit.  We don't want to
depress the righteous tax payers and have them call representatives and tell
them how bad we are.  Public Relations, you know.  
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