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In reply to the discussion: Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch [View all]LeftinOH
(5,354 posts)19. I thought Reagan's speech on TV that evening was wonderful....
...until I found (many years later) that it was written by Peggy Noonan, who cribbed the best lines from someone else's work. Reagan was a complete talking head.
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Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt Challenger launch [View all]
Lionel Mandrake
Feb 2012
OP
NASA did a horrible, horrible thing, when they refused to listen to him.
CaliforniaPeggy
Feb 2012
#1
Here's what I could find online. I remember the discussion well in 1986 when it happened. Conceded
no_hypocrisy
Feb 2012
#21
This was not an "engineering miscalculation". This error was a management error. The engineering
rhett o rick
Feb 2012
#2
That's a natural corporate media, authoritarian bias coming through in the column.
Uncle Joe
Feb 2012
#15
I was generalizing. A problem I see is that when you have engineers as managers
rhett o rick
Feb 2012
#36
RIP - You DID what you COULD, the shuttle astronauts will tell you that soon,,,,,
benld74
Feb 2012
#3
Does anyone know who was the on-site asshole that made the final decision to go for launch?
denbot
Feb 2012
#9
IIRc, CNN had cut awayt to commercial. I had CNN on but didn't see it live.
Hassin Bin Sober
Feb 2012
#58
Wow! Read this obit in the LA Times this a.m. & had never heard his story b4-Shocking!!!!!!
SoCalDemGrrl
Feb 2012
#41
NASA Was Trying to Go from R&D to Operational Status and Pushed by Reagan to do so
solarman350
Feb 2012
#45
''...as the vehicle cleared the tower Bob whispered to me that we had just dodged a bullet.''
Gabi Hayes
Feb 2012
#55
IIRC, the plan was to have Reagan talk to the astronauts LIVE from the SOTU, not just mentioning it,
GreatCaesarsGhost
Feb 2012
#56