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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Skeptical Shuttle Enquirer
Message-ID: <4287.280ac92a@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 14:51:36 GMT
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In article <HESKETT.91Apr9154409@polymnia.titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>, heskett@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Donald Heskett) writes:
> 
> It does seem to me, however, that a significantly higher percentage of
> failures have occured among satellites lofted by the Shuttle, compared
> with those lofted by expendable boosters. Unfortunately, I haven't
> kept records good enough to verify the conjecture. Nor have I ever
> come up with a good hypothesis for a cause.

This is a conjectured cause for the state of our memories:

There is live tv coverage of interesting events on the Shuttle missions,
followed by reruns ad nauseum.  We don't get the same immediacy for the
details of what happened on expendable launches.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com