Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!nbires!isis!scicom!wats
From: wats@scicom.alphacdc.com (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Challenger tragedy
Keywords: not the explosion but the 3 year delay
Message-ID: <1001@scicom.alphacdc.com>
Date: 29 Jul 88 23:21:20 GMT
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Networks, Denver, Co.
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Now that we are about to launch the shuttle after a nearly 3 year del`ay,
I was prompted to find out the length of the Apollo fire delay.  It was
almost 2 years.  I am wondering if the engineers involved in payload
planning allowed for such delays to schedule for Apollo and the impact to the experiments that
are still sitting on the ground for Shuttle.  Also I am recalling the fact that
there was never enough time or money to perform an engineering job
but there was always enough money and time to do it over if it was
done wrong.