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Article #3730Re: STS-1/Disaster
From: Steven Bellovin
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:58
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:58
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In article <71880@cup.portal.com>, BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes: > > > >Who is this Dr. Beter guy? > > > >Also, I realize the whole "Columbia disaster" thing is ridiculous, but does > >Enterprise have engines or not? I seem to remember it conducting its > >glide tests with that cone on the end, over the SSMEs. > > > >Just curious, > >Jeremy "EL HOMBRE" Scheinberg > > > > Nope, it had fake mockups which look little like SSMEs. Enterprise > has no tiles, either, and the flight deck was missing many of the > systems Columbia has. Finally, I was there and Columbia flew due-east > out of Cape Canaveral, not northeast. Geez, why am I bothering to > dispute such drivel? You were? Then you must be part of the conspiracy, too! He's a witch; burn him! The part of that posting that amused me the most was how Dr. Beter had all the information on what really happened when NASA hadn't figured it out yet...
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Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!att!dptg!ulysses!ulysses!smb From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) Subject: Re: STS-1/Disaster Message-ID: <1992Dec17.145856.16850@ulysses.att.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:58:56 GMT References: <102341@netnews.upenn.edu> <71880@cup.portal.com> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24