Re: Son of Little Joe II

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:06:59 -0500, Kevin Willoughby
<KevinWilloughby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In article <11qqhe3sp9j6q44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, flanner@xxxxxxxxxx
>says...
>> I'd go full-auto, at least during the SRB burn, due to the speed with
>> which solids can catastrophically fail.
>
>"Uh-ho". That's the last word of astronaut Michael Smith on the final
>flight of Space Shuttle Challenger.
>
>If he had an abort button, perhaps he'd still be alive...

Perhaps. But I'm not sure what that abort button could have done that
would have been survivable. Neither an SRB sep nor an orbiter sep
had much chance of success, if any...

Dale

Geez, the 20th anniversary of the Challenger accident is only a few
weeks away. Doesn't seem that long ago.
.

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