"BenignVanilla" wrote in message
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"Rusty B" wrote in message
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spacecraft with the Russian-US crew on board made an unauthorized
off-target ballistic descent," he said.
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I love the wayspace guys put things. *laugh* Reminds me of the Challenger
accident, when the first negative words I heard, were something like, "We
have had a major malfunction."

In his defence, that was an off the cuff immediate reaction. Remember, he
was 1000+ miles away and not looking at it, only the numbers coming across
in telemetry.

It's comments like above and the comment on the Arianne 5 launch ("failed to
meet objectives" I think was the term) that are written/said long AFTER the
event that I think are funnier.


BV.