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From: rck@ihuxx.UUCP (Kukuk)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Challenger SRBs
Message-ID: <958@ihuxx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 13:29:24 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 30 13:29:24 1986
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References: Challenger SRBs <4270@mhuxd.UUCP>
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It's my belief that NASA Launch Operations will regret that they
intentionally destroyed the SRBs.  As I understand that situation,
there was only a POSSIBILITY that the SRBs could have fallen on
populated areas.  They surely would have burned for only a few
more seconds.  Would the parachute recovery mechanism have worked even
after the shuttle explosion?  Recovering those SRBs, even after
a fall of ten miles, might have provided some evidence concerning
the tragedy.

Ron Kukuk