ijk@hropus.UUCP (Ihor J. Kinal) (02/14/86)
References: <4270@mhuxd.UUCP> <8500024@uiucdcs> <261@hadron.UUCP> Everyone has stated that the SRB's have charges down the length of them, and that the news media who claim that only the tops were blown of don't know what they're talking about. Yet in this week's TIME (Feb 17), they state: "While both rockets had been reported blown up by radio signals within 30 seconds of the accident, NASA belatedly explained that only the nose cones and nozzles were detonated. With the boosters thus opened at both ends, they lost their exhaust thrust and fell to the water." Has anyone seen the NASA statement to confirm this???? If this happened, was it a failure of the destruct mechanism. DID ANYONE THERE (Cape Canaveral) OR ON TAPES ACTUALLY SEE THE BOOSTERS ALL THE WAY (and can one tell if the destruct mechanism really works). Still puzzled. Ihor Kinal ihnp4!houxm!hropus!ijk From ijk Fri Feb 14 09:07 EST 1986 Subject: followup failed postnm: line 8: No colon on header line Did you remember to leave a blank line after the article header? postnm: line 9: No colon on header line Did you remember to leave a blank line after the article header? postnm: line 10: No colon on header line Did you remember to leave a blank line after the article header? postnm: line 11: No colon on header line Did you remember to leave a blank line after the article header? postnm: line 12: No colon on header line Did you remember to leave a blank line after the article header? postnm: line 13: No colon on header line Did you remember to leave a blank line after the article header? postnm: line 14: No colon on header line Did you remember to leave a blank line after the article header? postnm: line 15: No colon on header line Did you remember to leave a blank line after the article header? postnm: line 7: you changed the references line but I fixed it Exit status 1 from postnm Your article follows: Command: followup Newsgroups: net.columbia,net.space To: klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler) Subject: Re: Challenger SRBs Keywords: SRB Destruct Mechanism Distribution: References: <4270@mhuxd.UUCP> <8500024@uiucdcs> <261@hadron.UUCP> Everyone has stated that the SRB's have charges down the length of them, and that the news media who claim that only the tops were blown of don't know what they're talking about. Yet in this week's TIME (Feb 17), they state: "While both rockets had been reported blown up by radio signals within 30 seconds of the accident, NASA belatedly explained that only the nose cones and nozzles were detonated. With the boosters thus opened at both ends, they lost their exhaust thrust and fell to the water." Has anyone seen the NASA statement to confirm this???? If this happened, was it a failure of the destruct mechanism? DID ANYONE THERE (Cape Canaveral) OR ON TAPES ACTUALLY SEE THE BOOSTERS ALL THE WAY (and can one tell if the destruct mechanism really works)? Still puzzled. Ihor Kinal ihnp4!houxm!hropus!ijk