education (assuming the launch had gone well, Reagan even planned to
talk with her during this State of the Union speech later that night).*
....
* Something about that rings a bell; I'm going to keep digging on this.

In his book about the Challenger investigation Feynman looked in this
question. He got told by NASA people in charge that a com link (TV?)
from Washington to orbit was possible on very short notice without
prior preperations.

Now JimO brought up the question of groundstation, ComSat or TDRSS
window to get a com link. This may be a question for a TV link. But
wasnt a window for voice link open for most of the orbit? Is somewhere
a paper claiming no com link window for the State of the Union speech?


Besides this, I remember a statement I thought important. Before the
launch, MacAuliffe told to relatives: "This time they will launch
regardless what happens." Or something that line, its from memory
only. I thought that a very strange and odd statement until I got
to hear of the SOTU link.


Pat


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