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Posted by David Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 02:34:06 :

In Reply to: OT posted by David N. Lundstrom [64.68.11.101] on Wednesday, March 09, 2011 at 20:53:55 :

It's sad that you were just about the same age watching Challenger explode as I was watching Neil Armstrong step onto the moon. I saw the greatest success and was aware of what a big deal it was and how excited everyone was about out. You saw the greatest failure. Even though they kept flying the Shuttle after Challenger, all the enthusiasm was gone. There was no taking school teachers or any other civilians for a ride, no satellite servicing missions, no space-based manufacturing of exotic pharmaceuticals, no launches into polar orbit from Vandenberg, and really no mission at all except to keep flying missions, mostly to build a space station that was equally without a mission.

When Challenger blew up, I was starting my first job as an engineer for John Fluke. The day the Challenger exploded, the marketeers were about to launch a new ad campaign using a picture of a Shuttle launch and some predictable language about accuracy and reliability. Needless to say, they pulled those ads in a hurry. With one bad O-ring, the Shuttle went from being a symbol of success to a symbol of failure.



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