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From: gregc@cimage.com (Greg Cronau)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: weekly world news
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.235848.16522@cimage.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 23:58:48 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.887.1616@canrem.uucp>
Reply-To: gregc@dgsi.UUCP (Greg Cronau/10000)
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In article <1991Jan29.887.1616@canrem.uucp> "mike knox" <mike.knox@canrem.uucp> writes:
>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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> ~ DeLuxe}ab #4782 ~ Message composed 01-29-91 at 11:48am
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I agree. There is a crew compartment mockup floating(or anchored) in the
turning basin. I believe it is visible from the VIP viewing area. They
use that mockup for sea rescue exercises. Why bother with the exercises
if they are pointless?
*I* don't believe the WWN report either, ending with the 23rd Psalm is just
too damn hollywood, and why don't you hear any attempt by the pilots to
contact capcom?

gregc@cimage.com