Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!interlan.InterLan.COM!interlan.interlan.com!yetsko From: yetsko@interlan.interlan.com (Mike Yetsko) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Weekly World News publishes Challenger tape transcript Message-ID: Date: 25 Jan 91 14:11:16 GMT References: <38406@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan24.192723.13175@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: yetsko@interlan.interlan.com Organization: Racal InterLan, Inc., Boxborough, MA (1-800-LAN-TALK) Lines: 35 In-reply-to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 24 Jan 91 19:27:23 GMT In article <1991Jan24.192723.13175@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: Path: interlan.InterLan.COM!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Date: 24 Jan 91 19:27:23 GMT References: <38406@cup.portal.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 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. -- If the Space Shuttle was the answer, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology what was the question? | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry There were at least TWO personal tape recorders operating durring the launch. One was for the purpose of taking notes on perceptions of the launch to play back durring the broadcast to students. This was made very clear before the launch, and when the cabin was recovered, the tapes were reported as both destroyed and turned over to family as person effects. I'm sure that if recovered at all, they probably had more intense scrutiny than any spy tape in history. Mike Yetsko InterLan