rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe @ N41:48:31, W88:07:13) (02/10/84)
>> the booster that McDonald-Douglas made appears to has only fired a >> fraction of planned time. The shuttle shouldn't be implicated. >> --eugene miya First of all, the company to which you refer is McDonnell Douglas or, more accurately, McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company. They make no hamburgers. Second, they didn't make the PAM motors, Morton Thiokol did (who else?). I do agree that people calling it a "shuttle snafu" or referring to it as "shuttle follies" have missed the point. NASA and its agents performed their entire part of the contract very well. They cannot be faulted in any capacity. It is up to individual payload owners to arrange for boosters. The incidents do make NASA a victim, too. I'd speculate that QA at Morton screwed up. Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe