CEV PDQ

Pat Flannery wrote:
Ed Kyle wrote:


"http://yarchive.net/space/shuttle/launch_abort.html"


Oh, that's pleasant! Did they tell the crew about the little fire
problem?

I'm almost certain they did, since emergency crew
evacuation (slide wire and all) was being considered.
But the potential seriousness of the whole event was
understated so much that I'm not even sure the news
media picked up on it. The abort itself was news
enough, because it fed into the "shuttle isn't working
- NASA isn't able to get it off the ground - can't
meet schedule" story of the time. (Which turned into
the "NASA is too schedule-driven" story after
Challenger disentegrated.)

- Ed Kyle