Re: Credible Challenger Closure

On Jan 28, 6:02 pm, "William Ferreira" <william-
ferre...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

++ The remarkable thing about that so-called "fireball" is that there is
relatively little fire in it. Most of the orange in the cloud is Nitrogen
Tetroxide (N2O4) from the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) tanks which
ruptured as the aft fuselage was ripped apart by mechanical and aerodynamic
forces. Nasty stuff, that N2O4. Its vapor is an orange cloud.

++ Bill Ferreira

Bill, why did the following sequence from your photo team ultimately
turn up missing in the Rogers Report?

http://www.mission51l.com/1.jpg

http://www.mission51l.com/2.jpg

http://www.mission51l.com/3.jpg

Oh, and I guess I should include here another suppressed frame from
E207, the one which led to your above reply:

http://mission51l.com/art/explosion.jpg

By the way, what was the camera number of the out-of-focus film to
which you referred as being needed for enhancement -- to show the
"belly" flash from the north? Might that have been E205?

JTM
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