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Subject: Re: Challenger
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On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:29:13 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:08:26 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 08:21:52 +0100, Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>On 09/06/2024 03:42, john larkin wrote:
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Space/dp/
>198217661X
>>>> 
>>>> This is a very well researched and written book, and a sad, ghastly
>>>> story.
>>>> 
>>>> It reminds me that humans have no purpose in space but to die.
>>>
>>>That's a very jaundiced and negative view. Firstly, they weren't in
>>>space when they died; they were at 46000 feet, which was below the
>>>operational height of Concorde.
>> 
>> Dead is dead. Optimistically, they died instantly but probably not.
>
>I would guess it must have been very much like being exposed to a nuclear 
>blast. So basically frazzled to death over several seconds. Not nice.

The crew may have been alive when the cabin hit the water. The
recovery of the remains and the forensics was grim. I'm shocked that
NASA ever flew another shuttle.

The tiles and the SRBs and the external tanks and the engines were all
known hazards. Columbia was the nail in the coffin.

Two shuttles out of five were lost. NASA estimated that the loss rate
would be 1 in 100,000 flights.