TONIGHT ABC News TV Special

Just watched it. Thought it was a pretty good program for TV that is.

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"ElleninLosAngeles" wrote in message
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Charlie Gibson hosts a full-hour Columbia special, a Primetime TV
special report. 10 PM Pacific. Check your local listings. He
interviewed some of the engineers that wrote the infamous emails. Also
Leroy Cain in Mission Control. Astronaut family members + footage from
onboard the flight.

"Matt B (MB)" wrote in message
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Just watched it. Thought it was a pretty good program for TV that is.

Agreed

Not too terribly over-dramatized, a good bit of behind-the-scenes video and
some things I hadn't seen. Like the video from today's foam shot... I came
out into the living room and set up the internet stream to watch the Mars
launch right when they showed it. My first reaction was something like "Holy
F$cking Hell!!!"

He also said a rescue mission should have been done.

R

Kent Betts wrote in message
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"Matt B \(MB\)" wrote

Just watched it. Thought it was a pretty good program for TV that is.

Not a bad show at all. Lotsa facts. Not too much....."what if" bs.
The thing that stood out was ol' Story Musgrave. He said that viewing
the wing would have been the easiest space walk in the 106 space walks
he had designed, and that he could have gotten the EVA folks to where
the RCC was six inches in front of their face. I think he also said
that the EVA should have been done, IIRC.

Just watched it. Thought it was a pretty good program for TV that is.


Is it going to be shown again. I got off onto NASA TV for the Mars Delta
launch. Night shot with onboard video.





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If anyone taped this and would be willing to make a copy for me, please
e-mail me at . I'm really upset that I missed this.

Thanks,
Mark

I thought Story M. was getting a bit riled up and perhaps
exaggerating. Everyone else has said it would be a very difficult
spacewalk without handholds, etc planned out. Plus, when he said it
would be within 6 inches of their face he used his finger to show the
distance and he spanned a distance of more like 4 inches. Wouldn't
their big space helmets keep their eyes more than 4-6 inches away from
the missing item?!

What did you all think of the portrayal of Rodney Rocha the JSC
engineer who emailed to beg for photos but didn't speak up (by his own
admission) at a management meeting? I can see his point of not wanting
to be the lone person speaking up in a meeting but I keep wondering
why he didn't send his emails directly to the top... couldn't he have
just copied the very top managers?? This seems far less scary and
intimidating and it seems like it would have at least gotten his
initial uneasiness up to the top level.
I'm also still wondering how many other people at NASA had any
concerns whatsoever that the foam would cause a tragedy. It seems like
everyone was truly OK with it, beyond the engineers emailing each
other which maybe WAS just themselves chatting about the issue. At
least no one else is going in front of the media to say they weren't
surprised the shuttle didn't make it.

On 8 Jul 2003 10:51:44 -0700,
(ElleninLosAngeles) wrote:

I thought Story M. was getting a bit riled up and perhaps
exaggerating. Everyone else has said it would be a very difficult
spacewalk without handholds, etc planned out. Plus, when he said it
would be within 6 inches of their face he used his finger to show the
distance and he spanned a distance of more like 4 inches. Wouldn't
their big space helmets keep their eyes more than 4-6 inches away from
the missing item?!

Can you really blame him for being a bit riled. These people were his
friends and colluges.He was not even given a chance to try and come up
with a plan . The people who were making all the decions just wrote
his friends off.

Better to try and fail than never to try at all

"Kent Betts" wrote in message
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"Matt B \(MB\)" wrote

Just watched it. Thought it was a pretty good program for TV that is.

Not a bad show at all. Lotsa facts. Not too much....."what if" bs.
The thing that stood out was ol' Story Musgrave. He said that viewing
the wing would have been the easiest space walk in the 106 space walks
he had designed, and that he could have gotten the EVA folks to where
the RCC was six inches in front of their face. I think he also said
that the EVA should have been done, IIRC.

And he also said there's no chance a repair EVA would have worked, they were
only looking at a rescue mission. And I would take everything that Story
says with a grain or two of salt just on GP.

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I taped it but don't have a way to make a copy. I looked into buying
the video from ABC News, and it isn't listed yet on their store page
which is at:
http://www.abcnewsstore.com/
Other shows, like a few Nightline specials about the Columbia disaster
which I never did see myself, sell for $30.
(By the way, the store page only worked on my MAC if I looked it up in
MIE, not Netscape, browser.)