(LaDonna Wyss) wrote:

(Derek Lyons) wrote in message ...

By the way, are you aware those launches take place NOT on NASA property
but on Air Force property? That lends a military aspect right there.

Most everybody is aware of that aspect, but the military doesn't
control anything that goes on there (other than launch safety). To
consider that significant is ludicrous.

D.

Really? Well, I don't think General Phillips is alive, but perhaps
Colonel Strang still is. Why don't you ask him why he was the "point
man" in the Apollo One investigation? Once they "determined" there
was no foul play **snickering since I know better**,

You *claim* to know better, but you seem to be unable to demonstrate
that you know better.

why would the Air Force have taken point over NASA?

No mystery to anyone with a clue as to how these things work within
the government... The Air Force had experience in these matter, NASA
didn't. The Air Force also provided a degree of independence to the
investigation.

The experience angle is also why the Navy took the lead in
coordinating the recovery of both the Challenger wreckage and the
remains of TWA flight 800. It's also why Air Force personnel figured
greatly in the Rodgers Commission and the CAIB.

(Reference the FBI files; Borman
called the FBI once--actually his secretary dialed for him--but by the
time the FBI AIC got on the phone Borman had mysteriously gone into a
meeting. However, the AIC recorded that call and the subsequent one
from Colonel Strang, who told him in no uncertain terms HE was the
only point of contact in the investigation between the FBI and NASA's
"investigation.")

Again, not an unusual thing at all in any investigation or
multi-agency project. Multiple points of contact means multiple
points of potential confusion and friction. (See the CAIB report for
some examples of this.)

You'd do a lot better if you learned to ask questions of people who
know how things work and seek to understand the answers rather than
assuming you know. To date your assumptions are almost universally
wrong. (Ironic in light of the number of times you have told us not
to 'Ass U Me'.)

D.
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