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Subject: discovery
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 08:38:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 10 08:38:12 1984
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One of our PghL5 people was in the control room (by invitation of a friend)
during the whole thing. His impression was that nobody was really in control
or knew what was happening for several minutes. They had ground crews
stalled half way between safety and the Discovery, not knowing whether to
run or go back. The evacuation decision may have been very close, in which
case the astronauts take a wire ride into to a little concrete bunker. I
would say that the ground crew had need of judicious use of several rolls of
toilet paper at about that time...