[Boatanchors] Space Shuttle (OT, kinda)

[J. Forster]

Robert,

I'm not so sure the SRBs could have been built in one piece. They are huge.

-John

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> I concur.  While it is probably correct to say that at least the
> Challenger
> failure wouldn't have occurred with vertical staging, vertically staged
> rockets have certainly had their share of failures.  I will, however,
> insist on
> changing the final first paragraph sentence to "Hindsight always claims to
> be 20/20".  It is almost always impossible to prove.  Which is why a
> perhaps
> more common term for it is "Sunday Morning Quarterbacking".
>
> My take on the matter is that vertically staged rockets couldn't have been
> sold in the 70's.  And the primary mistake that affected the all-weather
> reliability of the system was in not assembling the SRB's as one piece
> near the
> launch site.  For which we have only politics to thank.  I can't currently
> recall the name of the person responsible but I'm sure a little digging
> would turn it up.
>
> In a message dated 7/11/2011 7:56:17 PM Central Daylight Time,
> jfor at quik.com writes:
>> Maybe. But you don't know what other failure modes that might have
>> caused.
>> Hindsight is always 20/20.
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ===============
>>
>>
>> >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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