[IP] NASA Explaining Thirty Years Of Fudge

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Einar Stefferud <Stef@thor.nma.com>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:04:52 -0700
To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: The Truth Will Out!

Explaining Thirty Years Of Fudge

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/shuttle-03p1.html


While a great deal of the testimony before the Columbia Accident
Investigation Board has been newsworthy to non-specialists -- and the Board
has by now made it plain that it does not intend to serve as the blind
puppets of NASA's officials -- nothing in it up until April 23 could be
described as "explosive".

But that is the only possible word that can be applied to the testimony on
that day by Robert F. Thompson, the Shuttle program's manager during the
crucial period from 1970 until just after the first Shuttle flight in 1981.
Thompson delivered a whole series of bombshells on a wide variety of
subjects, which can be roughly grouped into two categories.

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