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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Re: Did the Challenger wobble?
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 12:49:05 EST
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In article <437@mmm.UUCP> mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross) writes:
>While watching my VCR replay of the shuttle disaster, I noticed
>something that others may not have caught. The TV people kept showing
>slow motion footage of the explosion itself - but they didn't think
>to go the other way and speed up the tape rather than slowing it down.

Just before the explosion, there was a 10% loss of thrust in one of the
SRBs.  I suggest that what you are seeing is perhaps the loss of thrust
and the compensation applied.

Sean
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