Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!apple!bionet!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Easter Island Message-ID: Date: 1 Aug 90 03:49:31 GMT References: <1990Jul30.143354.23136@hellgate.utah.edu> <305.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 29 In-reply-to: thomas@mvac23.UUCP's message of 1 Aug 90 01:04:48 GMT In article <305.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp) writes: I couldn't help myself here... > Just as a related point of interest, in David Brin's new novel (science > fiction) called "Earth", the shuttle Atlantis must have used the Easter > Island emergency landing strip and then been accidentally "dropped" onto > the 747 carrier dammaging both irrepairibly. The shuttle was then stripped > of much of the equipement that could be used on the other shuttles and > then turned into a monument. But was a panel formed to investigate the accidental dropping?! :-) Better be an AIB--Accident Investigation Board--since this would surely be a Class A mishap. Cheaper or only minor injuries would entail an IIB--Incident Investigation Board. After all, when you run a complex program it's important to find out what went wrong and to avoid doing it again. Our most extensive AIBs here at Dryden follow a death, naturally. We've had a few, but never from the same cause twice, so maybe we do learn. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot