Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!canrem![mike.knox@canrem.uucp]
From: mike.knox@canrem.uucp (mike knox)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: weekly world news
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.887.1616@canrem.uucp>
Date: 29 Jan 91 17:02:20 GMT
Reply-To: "mike knox" <mike.knox@canrem.uucp>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
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Subject: Weekly World News publishes Challenger tape transcript
 
Henry Spencer writes:
>To put it bluntly, it's all wrong.  For one thing, there *is* no
>"ditch procedure" for an orbiter:  ditching one is 100% fatal, because the
>orbiter is too fragile to survive.
 
Are you sure of this? I remember seeing pictures of a mock-up orbiter
in the water with frog-men "rescuing" astronauts in some kind of training
exercise.
 
      Mike                              LSUC!mike.knox@canrem.uucp
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