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by mcritz
5571 days ago
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In former astronaut Mike Mullane's book Riding Rockets he details how some of the Challenger's controls had been moved from their standard launch positions. NASA tests would later confirm that they could not have been moved by the force of the initial explosion nor the impact with the ocean. At least some of the Challener crew survived the blast, and died in panic. |
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What makes you think that's the case? In The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe tells of test pilots in out-of-control aircraft who remained firmly in command of themselves, trying A, then B, then whatever they or the ground crew could think of, right up until impact.