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Default Proper commemoration of Challenger Disaster


Coming up on the 20th anniversary, I'm beating
my old drum with two suggestions for proper
commemoration:

1. Stop calling it an 'accident'. It was a disaster,
a crash, a catastrophe, probably NOT an 'explosion'
(a disintegration, more accurately) -- but it was most
of all a consequence of actions, a string of situations
that all lined up to destroy the spaceship and the crew.
It was avoidable. It was somebody's FAULT. It was
'wrongful death'.

2. Don't be satisfied with "73 seconds of silence". We now
know the crew did not perish cleanly in a shattering explosion
(the way many officials would have liked the public to believe),
but lost consciousness over the next 20-30 seconds as
the air rushed from their intact cabin (some taking emergency
measures, as trained), only to die on impact with the water
two minutes later. In the years after the disaster, NASA memorial
services commemorated the 73 seconds of the spaceship's powered
flight, but overtly ignored the next two minutes of the crew's lives.

See http://cbsnews.cbs.com/network/news/..._Disasters.htm


 




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