RE: Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried To Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch
February 7, 2012 at 2:33 am
(February 7, 2012 at 1:36 am)popeyespappy Wrote: I worked at the Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) located at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center from April 87 through May 99. Among other things that go on at the HOSC it used to be the facility where the engineers responsible for both the SSME and SRB components sat on console for launch operations. You might be interested in chapter nine and chapter ten from the Book Power To Explore: History of Marshall Space Flight Center 1960-1990. Chapter nine is about the Challenger accident and chapter ten talks about the investigation and the return to flight. Chapter nine might surprise you with just how much NASA knew about problems with the SRB seals well before Challenger. Some of the people discussed in the book were sitting in the HOSC when Challenger blew up.
It wouldn't surprise me at all, like it doesn't surprise me how much they knew about the foam issue prior to the Columbia disaster.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
