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From: jlg@lanl.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Challenger disaster
Message-ID: <557@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 12:51:02 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 12:51:02 1986
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Reply-To: jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles)
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <899@h-sc1.UUCP> bangs@h-sc1.UUCP (alex bangs) writes:
>In article <787@decwrl.DEC.COM> fisher@star.DEC (Burns Fisher ZKO1-1/D42 DTN 381-1466) writes:
>After the explosion, a chute was seen -- some thought, incorrectly, it belonged
>to a crew member.  It was one of the SRB chutes.  Only one chute popped, as far

The parachute seen on some of the Kennedy Space Center monitors has been
incorrectly identified as both a crew member and an SRB.  The 'chute was
one of the paramedics dropped by the recovery team in the first minutes
after the disaster.

J. Giles
Los Alamos