New subject: [OT] Challenger Disaster (was Re: Who invented the internet?)

17 Feb 1999

I guess we'll have to see what information is available on the net about
that January 1986 event.  I do seem to recall that the flight was about 2
minutes 10+ seconds underway when the ship hit the fan, so to speak.  The
entire trip into orbit only required about 8.5 minutes, so they were a fair
piece of the way along.  

My recollection is that they were searching off Florida for the boosters,
but in the Indian Ocean to recover the shuttle and the bodies.  There was a
lot of talk about the 8 minutes or so that it took for the shuttle to hit
the water after things went bad.  I could be mistaken, of course.  It
wouldn't be the first time . . . 

Dick
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  From: Ward D. Griffiths III &lt;gram(a)cnct.com&gt;
 To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
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  Subject: Re: Who invented the internet?
 Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 3:48 PM

 On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:

 > Well, if you mean the rescue I think you mean, it's actually in the
Indian
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  > Ocean.  That's where the Challenger went
down.  The fuel tank and solids
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  > (booster rockets) went down near Florida, but the
Challenger went down on
...
   the far side
of Africa if memory serves me.    
 The Challenger was nowhere near suborbital when the explosion took
 place.  Everything landed off the coast of Florida.
 --
 Ward Griffiths
 "the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then

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  you'll just take the fall"                   
            Michael Longcor 