Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!hsdndev!spdcc!dirtydog!suitti From: suitti@ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Two Shuttles at once Message-ID: <1991Mar18.174401.28607@ima.isc.com> Date: 18 Mar 91 17:44:01 GMT References: <9103090210.AA04529@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov> <1991Mar11.200153.7206@b15.ingr.com> <1991Mar12.141225.12004@pbs.org> Sender: usenet@ima.isc.com Reply-To: suitti@ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302 Lines: 13 In article <1991Mar12.141225.12004@pbs.org> pstinson@pbs.org writes: > While we are speaking hypothetically, remember that if CHALLENGER > had launched on the 27th, before the deep freeze, it probably > would have made it into orbit. The only reason it didn't go the > day before was because of a freak problem with closing the hatch. > The darned tool wouldn't come off, but if it had, there would > have been no bitter pill at all to swallow. Perhaps not for that flight. Would there have been enough time to notice & correct this failure mode before there was a disaster? I'd like to think so, but I remain skeptical. Stephen.