[Boatanchors] Space Shuttle (OT, kinda)

[J. Forster]

Maybe. But you don't know what other failure modes that might have caused.
Hindsight is always 20/20.

-John

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> The original designs for the Shuttle had the Spacecraft on -top- of the
> stack.  That -alone- would have prevented -both- of the disasters.
> 73  Gary  N9ZSV
>
> On 7/10/2011 9:43 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> I spent two plus years working on a payload, only to see it blown up
>> after
>> BECO due to a staging failure. I saw the problem, told my late boss, but
>> it went off anyway.
>>
>> And that was not the only time, either.
>>
>> -John
>>
>>
>>>  I think it was incompetant management, rather than faulty
>>>> design,
>>>> that caused those terrible events.
>>
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> Gary Pewitt   N9ZSV
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