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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Challenger SRBs
Message-ID: <1968@peora.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 08:23:16 EST
Article-I.D.: peora.1968
Posted: Tue Feb 11 08:23:16 1986
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> The story I hear is that the original message was correct, and NASA does
> regret the destruction of the SRBs; in retrospect there was little danger
> of them going anywhere untoward.  But the Range Safety people had only
> seconds in which to make a decision, and I believe NASA has officially
> stated that their (as it turns out) excessive caution was proper.
>
> The recovery system would probably have worked, given that the noses of
> the SRBs were probably the section least exposed to the blast.

What happens if you deploy a parachute on a rocket that is headed almost
straight downward?  Won't it get tangled in the parachute?
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