joels@tekred.UUCP (Joel Swank) (03/10/86)
> > The lack of that press conference cost the Challenger crew their lives. > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry This is very unlikely. The most a press conference could reasonably be expected to accomplish is to delay the launch until warmer temperatures. Under most of the current theorys of what went wrong, this would not have prevented the accident, only delayed it. If the damage that caused the accident was permanent, the only way to have prevented the accident would have been to move Challenger back to the hanger, tear down the launch assembly, and find and replace the defective parts. I think there was almost no chance of ANYTHING causing NASA do that. Joel Swank Tektronix, Redmond, Oregon