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From: benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (T Cox)
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Subject: Aftermath: what next?
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 12:39:16 EST
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Challenger blew up.  Therefore we should stop trying.

	is analogous to

I fell down.  Therefore I should stop trying to walk.


Wrong conclusion, bozos.  Try again.

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Unrelated topic:  Looks, from today's [Tuesday's] paper, one 
week exactly after the disaster, that NASA has been withholding
information and/or lying to the public.  I sympathize with the
idea of being quiet until you have something to say, but as
an aspiring public relations professional with a career PR 
professional for a father, I can tell you that NASA did wrong.
They are now [today, anyway] coming across as less than honest.

First rule of public relations [and indeed of life] :
	
	Build trust through honest communications.

NASA has not.  I would tend to blame their stand-in acting
director, who is not that experienced at this stuff.

If I'm right, and I'm afraid I am, what will this do to NASA
and to the shuttle program -- and to manned space projects?

Thomas Cox
-- 
...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!benn

   ...but I will defend to the death your right to ... you said *WHAT*?