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From: thoth@tellab3.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Range safety system
Message-ID: <313@tellab3.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 15:25:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 15:25:38 1986
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Reply-To: thoth@tellab3.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
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First, a few lines of silence in memory of Challenger and her crew.















A while ago, there was discussion on net.columbia about testing the
range safety system during the countdown, using the actual flight codes.
It was proposed that one should be able to receive this transmission
and then transmit it to the shuttle during flight.  The result of this
discussion (to the best of my knowledge) was that it must not be that
simple, but I never saw anything that refuted it.

After I heard of Challenger's explosion, and after I started believing it,
this discussion came immediately to mind.  Does anyone know where the
ordinances are placed and what the possibility is that this is what destroyed
Challenger?  With Khadaffi threatening terrorism in America, it just makes
me afraid that the shuttle would be a prime target for an attack.  I hate
to consider this as a real possibility, however, so someone in the know,
please prove this wrong!

marcus hall
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