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From: roper@chinet.UUCP (Bill Roper)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Challenger
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 22:55:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 22:55:35 1986
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If there is any justice, the names of the seven men in the crew will not be
used as justification to substitute unmanned flight for manned.

My next door neighbor, Doug Van Dorn, saw something in the slow motion
replay of the explosion which appears to be Challenger, tumbling in the 
fraction of a second after the shuttle was engulfed in flame.  The image is
white-hot, glowing brighter than the surrounding explosion, which seems
reasonable for the silica tiles.  Challenger seems to come broadside to
the camera for a moment, then continues to tumble.  The last that can be
seen is the tail disappearing where the nose of the shuttle had been
before the explosion.

I mention this because the commentators on ABC didn't see it and I
thought that it might be of some interest.  It shows up very clearly
when you run the super-slow-motion films frame by frame on a VCR.
-- 
Bill Roper, ihnp4!chinet!roper