On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:24:39 GMT, "Jim Oberg"
wrote:

Those were the first words of Christopher Timothy Tanton, a former
shuttle designer with the American National Aeronautical and Space
Administration (NASA), at Industrial Area Prison.

Highly unlikely, as he's a British citizen and NASA only hires US
citizens. He could, perhaps, have worked for Rockwell, but it would
have been back in the early '70s, so the timeline seems odd. He's too
young to have been a major designer, but he could have been designing
minor components, I guess.

He's a year or two younger than I am, meaning he got out of college in
about 1970, at which point the Orbiter was being designed. I refuse
to believe that a fresh-out, no matter how intelligent, was designing
anything of any importance on the Orbiter, either at NASA or at RI.
That's not how the world works.

Reading the whole story, I think the guy is a fake. He might believe
what he's saying, but I sure don't.

Mary
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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
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