[Boatanchors] Space Shuttle (OT, kinda)

Gary Pewitt garypewitt at centurytel.net
Mon Jul 11 17:17:10 EDT 2011


The original designs for the Shuttle had the Spacecraft on -top- of the 
stack.  That -alone- would have prevented -both- of the disasters.
73  Gary  N9ZSV

On 7/10/2011 9:43 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> I spent two plus years working on a payload, only to see it blown up after
> BECO due to a staging failure. I saw the problem, told my late boss, but
> it went off anyway.
>
> And that was not the only time, either.
>
> -John
>
>    
>>  I think it was incompetant management, rather than faulty
>>> design,
>>> that caused those terrible events.
>
>
>
>    


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Gary Pewitt   N9ZSV
1500 French Prairie Rd
Booneville, AR  72927



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