Tim Furniss e-book on 'The Challenger Coverup'

Tim Furniss e-book on 'The Challenger Coverup'



Jim Oberg notes: "Tim was for many years a respected space journalist at

'Flight International' magazine. Was that all counterfeit, or has he only

recently gone off the deep space end? Like, where did he EVER get the

notion the crew even HAD an 'emergency SRB jettison' command? No,

he really did good stuff for a good many years -- and seems to have lost

that ability, judging from this blurb. Sigh. Sic transit...."



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The Challenger Cover Up

The Space Shuttle Challenger accident on 28 January 1986 was not caused by
an O- ring failure on one of the solid rocket boosters but by a structural
failure of the booster in the region of the semicircular attach ring, which
attached it to the external tank.

As Challenger rose into the skies, the right hand booster was shedding
pieces from the damaged booster and was fishtailing slightly through the
sky - a fact that was clearly recognised by the crew, who had worked out was
wrong, were on the point of saving the orbiter and crew but ran out of time.
They were within 1 sec of saving the mission with a contingency abort!

This is revealed in a book published by British spaceflight journalist Tim
Furniss, who was the spaceflight correspondent of Flight International
magazine from 1984-2006.

Chapter 10, which covers the Challenger accident, is 37,000 words long.

"A Life in Space", an ebook, tells the story of a 12 year-old boy whose
enthusiasm for space was fired by Yuri Gagarin's flight on 12 April 1961.
Tim purchased his first copy Flight International in 1962, when the magazine
featured a Space Special issue and continued to read it every week.

Tim's ambition was to become a spaceflight journalist and to meet
astronauts, visit spaceports and to see launches. He witnessed Apollo,
Shuttle and other launches from Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Centre and
Baikonur.

In 1984 he became Flight International's space correspondent. His ambition
reached its peak, when he was the first British journalist to watch a manned
launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in 1988. As he stood on Gagarin's
launch pad 1, Tim remembered with thanks to God for that day in 1961.

His inspirational story - like "The Rocket Boys" (October Sky) and "Billy
Elliot" - screenplay in progress - is linked with a first hand history of
the space age, which began on 4 October 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1 -
from the same launch pad that launched Gagarin - to the present day,
including all the main events, including Gagarin, Apollo 11 and the
Challenger accident.

The official cause of this accident was an O-ring failure, a conclusion made
in great haste by the Rogers Commission, which overlooked or disregarded
vital evidence but was also not provided with the full information from
NASA. Like a good detective story, concerns about the O rings in cold
weather were raised by engineers at Morton Thiokol but these were actually a
red herring.

As Challenger rose into the skies, the right hand booster was shedding
pieces from the damaged booster and was fishtailing slightly through the
sky - a fact that was clearly recognised by the crew, who had worked out was
wrong, were on the point of saving the orbiter but ran out of time. Dick
Scobee and Mike Smith were within 1 sec of saving the mission with a
contingency abort!

NASA very carefully censored any images that showed what was really
happening - unlike the hundreds of views from several angles that were
usually published after a launch. The space agency also misidentified the
crew cabin falling into the sea, which explained why it took so long to find
the fallen seven-person crew, which included the schoolteacher, Christa
McAuliffe.

Amateur video coverage seen from the north of the Kennedy Space Centre,
clearly shows the right hand booster shedding debris and trailing a third
"spluttering" contrail.

American aereospace engineer, Ali Abutaha dedicated years investigating the
accident but was persecuted and rubbished by NASA, which took all his
findings aboard and redesigned the Shuttle - including a
fully-circumferential attach ring - which was clear to see on the Shuttle's
Return to Flight in 1989. "No reader could find what you're writing about
anywhere else!", says Ali.

"A Life in Space", the inspiring, amusing, moving, frank, intimate,
surprising and feel-good read, can be purchased from Spaceport Publishing as
a download on Tim's website, www.spaceport.co.uk. An outline synopsis is
also available on the website. A short biography is also available.

Contact details: (+44) (0)1237 477883.

Challenger snippets

.... "messy" contrail coming from one of the SRBs .TV image going in and
out of focus .the SSMEs gimblal in an unusual fashion.it has been reported
that Challenger hit a "54kt wind shear at T+50s" in the flight... NASA did
not launch Space Shuttles into wind shear!.The "wind shear" was the
Challenger "zigzagging" due to a breached booster. NASA photo team noticed
the third plume seen from New Smyrna Beach north of the KSC and even told
the Commission but this was not taken up!..a private video taken from the
north shows an extra trail. the Rogers Commission showed only the final two
seconds!...Five key pieces of the SRB fell off during the launch .an
airline pilot flying SE said smoke was seen streaming "out of the wall" of
the right hand booster. he saw the SRB separation motors fire...who fired
them? . the crew knew the SRB was in trouble!!.Ali Abutaha, a dynamics
engineer examined hundreds of Time magazine images .some show that the fire
started at lift-off and continued through the ascent! .Time never published
them!.the crew was obviously aware, used the readouts from the upper cable
tray (giving the pressure in the upper segments) and punched the SRBs away -
but it was just too late.NASA took six weeks to the find the crew
compartment because it identified the wrong object!..Abutaha's findings
were rejected by NASA but the agency used his analysis to change the
Shuttle ... MUCH MORE!!!!.

Jim Oberg wrote:

Tim Furniss e-book on 'The Challenger Coverup'


Jim Oberg notes: "Tim was for many years a respected space journalist at

'Flight International' magazine. Was that all counterfeit, or has he only

recently gone off the deep space end? Like, where did he EVER get the

notion the crew even HAD an 'emergency SRB jettison' command? No,

he really did good stuff for a good many years -- and seems to have lost

that ability, judging from this blurb. Sigh. Sic transit...."

Did they (NASA) ever give serious consideration to designing the Shuttle
with RTLS capability at some point in the SRB launch phase or was this
always regarded as an impossibility?

Stargazer wrote:
Jim Oberg wrote:

Tim Furniss e-book on 'The Challenger Coverup'

Jim Oberg notes: "Tim was for many years a respected space journalist at

'Flight International' magazine. Was that all counterfeit, or has he only

recently gone off the deep space end? Like, where did he EVER get the

notion the crew even HAD an 'emergency SRB jettison' command? No,

he really did good stuff for a good many years -- and seems to have lost

that ability, judging from this blurb. Sigh. Sic transit...."

Did they (NASA) ever give serious consideration to designing the Shuttle
with RTLS capability at some point in the SRB launch phase or was this
always regarded as an impossibility?

The latter.

Sigh. Sic transit...."

Red herrings are getting a lot of bad PR.

was not caused by an O- ring failure

Of course, hot plasma flowing through that joint was no problem.

a structural failure of the semicircular attach ring, which attached it
to the external tank.

Yeah, let's cover up *THAT* problem and blame it on the more acceptable
O-rings.

Yo Ali Abutaha we need you to check the water fountains at JSC for heavy
metals, I think.



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On Jun 19, 10:34 pm, "Revision" wrote:
Sigh. Sic transit...."

Red herrings are getting a lot of bad PR.

was not caused by an O- ring failure

Of course, hot plasma flowing through that joint was no problem.

a structural failure of the semicircular attach ring, which attached it
to the external tank.

Yeah, let's cover up *THAT* problem and blame it on the more acceptable
O-rings.

Yo Ali Abutaha we need you to check the water fountains at JSC for heavy
metals, I think.

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Still covering thy Zion butts, we see.

How about we talk ABL or TWA flight-800 ?

How about a 30% inert massive rocket with a mere 60:1 ratio of rocket
per payload, going for the moon?
-
"whoever controls the past, controls the future" / George Orwell
-
Brad Guth

Revision wrote:

was not caused by an O- ring failure

Of course, hot plasma flowing through that joint was no problem.

The gas inside an SRB is a *plasma*? Who knew!

Paul

In article ,
Jim Oberg wrote:
"he really did good stuff for a good many years -- and seems to have lost
that ability, judging from this blurb. Sigh. Sic transit...."

And an endorsement from Ali Abutaha, no less. Talk about a clear sign of
what the content is going to be like...
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mail to henry at zoo.utoronto.ca instead. |

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:07:01 -0500, "Paul F. Dietz"
wrote:

Of course, hot plasma flowing through that joint was no problem.

The gas inside an SRB is a *plasma*? Who knew!

Hence the coverup! :-)

Brian

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:33:08 -0500, "Jim Oberg"
wrote:


Tim Furniss e-book on 'The Challenger Coverup'



Jim Oberg notes: "Tim was for many years a respected space journalist at

'Flight International' magazine. Was that all counterfeit, or has he only

recently gone off the deep space end? Like, where did he EVER get the

notion the crew even HAD an 'emergency SRB jettison' command? No,

he really did good stuff for a good many years -- and seems to have lost

that ability, judging from this blurb. Sigh. Sic transit...."

I think it's high time I write my own Challenger book. My friends have
always told me I'm full of bull****, it's time I start capitalizing on
it. Let's see...we start with a spine-tingling exerpt:

"Like the fruit given to Adam by Eve, the apple given to Christa
McAuliffe by well-intentioned suit-up technicians meant death for the
Challenger crew. As the mighty ship roared upwards the apple was
ripped from Christa's hands by the tremendous g-forces and flung
downward at great speed, striking the "Ship Destruct" button. In an
instant, the popular Teacher In Space and her faceless assistants
dissolved into plasma. Class dismissed.

Nasa covered up this damning truth, not wanting the world to know of
the onboard "destruct" button which was to be used only in the rare
event of Alien Invasion or flipped-out sex-starved female astronauts
whose passions could not be contained in their diapers.....(to be
continued)

On Jun 19, 2:33 pm, "Jim Oberg" wrote:
Tim Furniss e-book on 'The Challenger Coverup'

Jim Oberg notes: "Tim was for many years a respected space journalist at

'Flight International' magazine. Was that all counterfeit, or has he only

recently gone off the deep space end? Like, where did he EVER get the

notion the crew even HAD an 'emergency SRB jettison' command? No,

he really did good stuff for a good many years -- and seems to have lost

that ability, judging from this blurb. Sigh. Sic transit...."

Is this the same Ali Abutaha that wanted everyone to believe it was
the "twanging" motion of the SRBs and shuttle stack at main engine
ignition that was the real cause of the Challenger accident (again
touted by Tim Furniss)? So now it's a failure of the attach
ring, huh? Yeah, Tim has gone off the deep end to be suckered by
Abutaha all this time. A pity, really, as Furniss' has always produced
interesting articles on space flight, and to see him fall to something
as wacky as this is truely a tragedy and loss to the space journalism
community.
-Mike