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From: mears@hpindda.HP.COM (David B. Mears)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: other causes of the Challenger disaster?
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Date: 26 May 88 17:21:51 GMT
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I read an article some time ago (I think it was in IEEE Spectrum, but I
don't remember for sure) which talked about the speculations of one
scientist.  I don't remember the name of the scientist, and the article
indicated that not many people took much stock in this person's opinions,
nevertheless, he believed that wind sheer played a big part in the
disaster.  He also postulated that the wind sheer was severe enough
that the struts would have broken apart from the wind sheer even without
having been weakened by the SRM exhaust leak.

David B. Mears
Hewlett-Packard
Cupertino CA
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