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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Blowing up the Shuttle
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Date: 9 Apr 90 17:33:20 GMT
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In article <10556.1574.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu> Greg_d._Moore@mts.rpi.edu (Commander Krugannal) writes:
>
>   This HAS been done.  The Range Safety Officer, upon gaining 
>   information on Challanger, realized that the shuttle was
>   unrecoverable and uncontrollerable and detonated charges in the
>   ET and SRB's. 

The RSO did not detonate the charges in the ET. They were recovered
intact. Only the SRB's were destroyed by RSO.

Peter Jarvis..........