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by PaulHoule
1565 days ago
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If it hadn’t been one thing it would have been another. The next two missions after STS-51-L were planned to have two shuttles on the pad simultaneously and both of them with thin-skinned liquid fuel upper stages in the cargo bays. Charles Perron, in the book Normal Accidents warns of the tendency of people to subtract from the safety margin of a successful system in the pursuit of speed, performance, profits, etc. It does boggle the mind however that with so much documentation for the Shuttle they never thought to specify a minimum launch temperature! |
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