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From: Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net>
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Subject: Re: Challenger
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:05:06 -0000 (UTC)
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john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 13:28:58 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
> 
>> john larkin <jl@650pot.com> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Of course most folks here don’t really think that we have any purpose here
>> either. 
>> 
>> Cheers 
>> 
>> Phil Hobbs 
> 
> Whatever our purpose, killing astronauts probably doesn't help.
> 
> Spending hundreds of billions on spam-in-a-can is a waste of resources
> that could truly help.
> 
> The book is fascinating. The fatheads that decided to launch cared
> about power, money, and politics. The investigations after the
> disaster, the same. A few very brave engineers runined their careers
> to literally shout the truth. And Richard Feynman, who knew he was
> dying of cancer.
> 
> 

Sounds like an expanded rehash of the presidential commission report.  For
the other side of the story, I highly recommend Diane Vaughan’s “The
Challenger Launch Decision”. 

Cheers 

Phil Hobbs 

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs  Principal Consultant  ElectroOptical Innovations LLC /
Hobbs ElectroOptics  Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics