Russell McMahon wrote:

>> 2.  For the first time since Apollo, an escape tower will be used,
>> which would have saved the crew in the Challenger accident.
>
>
> The sad thing is that a parachute on the crew module might have saved 
> the crew in Challenger.
>
I thought the real sad thing was that if management would've listened to 
the Morton Thiokol engineers about the o-ring problem, they wouldn't 
have even needed a parachute.

http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~jackh/eod/engineer/engineer-219.html

Aaron
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