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From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Challenger disaster
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 18:36:51 EST
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The following is the second posting I've read worrying about ejection seats:
> On the topic of ejection seats...  I hope that uninformed
> press and public do not force NASA to do a lot of unnecessary work before the
> shuttle continues its work....

Well, excuse me for asking -- but how you gonna put ejection seats in
the durn thing anyway?  Think, folks (and I hope the 'Powers' in their
finite wisdom do, too) -- ejection seats on fighter aircraft depend on the
fact that the canopy can be blown clear first (and a few pilots have died
when it wasn't).  Is it feasible to put a removable canopy in a shuttle???
Or are we going to eject them through the roof?  There is no smiley here
because too many people -- no doubt uninformed people -- have phrased the
question seriously.

Barb