Susan Sarandon narrates film on Challenger disaster

education (assuming the launch had gone well, Reagan even planned to
talk with her during this State of the Union speech later that night).*
....
* Something about that rings a bell; I'm going to keep digging on this.

In his book about the Challenger investigation Feynman looked in this
question. He got told by NASA people in charge that a com link (TV?)
from Washington to orbit was possible on very short notice without
prior preperations.

Now JimO brought up the question of groundstation, ComSat or TDRSS
window to get a com link. This may be a question for a TV link. But
wasnt a window for voice link open for most of the orbit? Is somewhere
a paper claiming no com link window for the State of the Union speech?


Besides this, I remember a statement I thought important. Before the
launch, MacAuliffe told to relatives: "This time they will launch
regardless what happens." Or something that line, its from memory
only. I thought that a very strange and odd statement until I got
to hear of the SOTU link.


Pat


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