Nicholas Fitzpatrick wrote
in message ...

Look, I've said I won't prejudge you. And I apologise for
doing so without listening to your side of the story.

Okay, let's start over. This thread is misnamed. Pappy
hasn't "set the record straight;" he helped set me up. He
and my lead attorney failed to file a False Claims case for
me as promised. They claimed they couldn't get their FOIA
requests (for film) filled by NASA at JSC. They told me to
request it *for* them from KSC. KSC refused. Then they
said they *had* to have an original frame for spectral analysis
of the flame at 59 seconds in order to file. Months later, into
the Bush administration in 1989, they eventually settled for a
"screening" session. In no way did that aid spectral analysis.

Credentials? Nothing particular ... I'm not an aerospace engineer.
Though I am an engineer, so I should at least have some ability to
comprehend issues. And I certainly lived through the 1980s, paying
close attention to the issue at the time. (as an aside, I remember
listening to the launch ... I was living in Indonesia at the time, and
Voice of America picked up the NPR feed of the launch ... very
wierd ... I haven't ever heard anyone mention this since, but I remember
the one NPR commentator, after the explosion, commenting that
the SRB separation was very clear, probably because of the cold ...
followed by nothing but silence (and the NASA commentator eventually,
with the famous major malfunction line).

But I digress.

What would have NASA's motive be in covering this up?

High-level officials at NASA wanted to keep their jobs.

Sure, cover-ups occur, but they must be for a reason ... I expect
we are witnessing one right now, in the White House ... but that's
another story.

It's not altogether another story, believe it or not.

And as a second question. Why do you keep adding other groups
to the Newsgroups: line?

I don't. Those are the same groups I've always posted to (with the
Mosley title). Don't attack me personally and you won't see that
abuse notice. Feel free to change this title (and groups) if you like.

--
John Thomas Maxson, Retired Engineer (Aerospace)
Author, The Betrayal of Mission 51-L (www.mission51l.com)