Conference 7.286::space

232.0. "Letter from the Space Center" by CHEV02::MARSH (Jeffrey Marsh, DTN 474-5739) Thu Nov 20 1986 18:43

    An article titled "Letter from the Space Center" by Henry S. F.
    Cooper, Jr. was published in the November 10 issue of "The New Yorker"
    magazine.  It is well worth reading by anyone who follows this
    conference.  The title refers to the Johnson Space Center, where
    Mr. Cooper interviewed many astronauts and NASA employees about
    their thoughts on the Challenger accident.  The author also discusses
    the events leading up to the January 28th explosion, following a
    thread all the way back to Sputnik.  I learned several things which
    were unearthed from the appendices of the Rogers report.
    
    I can't resist including one quote:
         
         Nixon apparently was entranced with the space shuttle;
         when Fletcher visited him a couple of days later at San
         Clemente and showed him a model of it, John Ehrlichman
         (who was there and told Logsdon about the episode) was
         afraid that Fletcher wouldn't be able to get the model
         back from the President.
    
    I could photocopy the article if there's interest.

    I don't have the article in "machine readable" form, so please send
    me your paper mail addresses and I'll get a Xerox to you.
    
    	-- Jeff

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