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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Weekly World News publishes Challenger tape transcript
Message-ID: <38406@cup.portal.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 03:02:01 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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The current issue of the science-oriented tabloid _Weekly_World_News_
carries an article with what is purported to be a transcript of the
conversations in the Challenger between the explosion and the impact
several minutes later -- the tape which Nasa successfully kept secret
for the years since the explosion.

WWN is well-known for fabricating much of their own news and distorting
the rest in a sensational fashion.  The transcript reads like I would
expect it to read if it was the real thing, and I'm wondering whether
there is any possibility that it might be genuine.