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- From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 14:18:44 GMT
- Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab
- Message-ID: <4h4ck4$nv7@news.nyu.edu>
- References: <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <tgmDnC3AM.MEv@netcom.com> <1996Feb25.144018.8984@ohstpy>
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- In article <1996Feb25.144018.8984@ohstpy> vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
- >In article <tgmDnC3AM.MEv@netcom.com>, tgm@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams) writes:
- >> Ted Dennison (dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com) wrote:
- >> For the record, it was NASA administrators who pushed for the
- >> Challenger launch. The engineers and contractors were overruled in
- >> their efforts to scrub the launch.
- >
- >The NASA admins, of course, were pushed by the Whitehouse, who insisted
- >on having the Challenger in orbit during Reagan's State of the Union
- >Address, where the plan was to do a live interview with the Teacher-In-Space
- >and the President during the address, all in the name of propoganda.
-
- The "of course" here is a vast oversimplification. In fact, there
- has never been any evidence confirming such a "push".
-
- As to Robert's comment that "contractors" did not argue against a
- launch, that's not totally correct either. From what I understand,
- Rockwell did state that the launch temperature was out of their
- experience range and they had concerns about a launch. Since they could
- not state any explicit reasons for their concern, they were
- overruled. Note that this was a *different* issue from that raised
- by the Morton Thiokol engineers.
-
- This has been, and is currently, being discussed extensively on
- sci.space.shuttle, to which I've redirected followups.
-