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To: Balata
Hey, there's a novel idea. If you can't bring them back in case of emergency then any takeoff that is less than perfect should be aborted immediately.

Ah, it's incident #542,431,787 at FR of "not reading the article."

They didn't know the foam had fallen off till the day AFTER the launch.

22 posted on 02/03/2003 10:05:47 PM PST by John H K
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To: John H K
Ah, it's incident #542,431,787 at FR of "not reading the article."

Is that ALL? Surely it must be mmore than that..

25 posted on 02/03/2003 10:06:46 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ('I WISH, at some point, that you would address those damned armadillos in your trousers." - JustShe)
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To: John H K
I am aware they didn't know the foam had fallen off until they reviewed the film the next day. It makes my point that they can't in every instance have a perfect takeoff, which they need, because they don't have a back up system to retrieve the astronauts.
55 posted on 02/03/2003 10:24:42 PM PST by Balata
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