Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Weekly World News publishes Challenger tape transcript
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.192723.13175@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <38406@cup.portal.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 1991 19:27:23 GMT

In article <38406@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>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...
>... I'm wondering whether
>there is any possibility that it might be genuine.

I'd be very surprised.  As far as I know, there were no battery-powered 
recorders running aboard.  The cabin voice recorders run off the
orbiter power system, which was lost during the breakup.
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