Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Astronauts.....Alive?!?!?!?!???
Message-ID: <1988Sep22.052539.3202@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <15152@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <794@proxftl.UUCP> <1988Sep21.165000.20167@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 88 05:25:39 GMT

As promised, here's the full reference:

Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger
Accident.  Volume I.  No other author, title, or ISBN given (really!).

Vol. I is the nicely-bound report that was published widely.  Volumes II-V
are a bunch more appendixes and great masses of testimony.  I'm not sure
whether Vol I is still in print -- probably -- but if so, it should be
available from

	United States Government Printing Office
	Superintendent of Documents
	Washington, DC 20402  USA

I don't remember how much my copy cost, but it was something like $10.
I think Aviation Week has also offered it, but the two issues I've got
on hand don't carry one of their in-house book ads -- I'll keep my eyes
open for one.  Any good library ought to have a copy of Vol I, and maybe
the other volumes if it's a really good library.

As I said before, do remember that the commission only had four months
to do its job, and there is room for criticism about some aspects of
the report.  It is not the last word on Challenger.  It is, however, the
*first* (authoritative) word, and anyone seriously interested in the
matter should read it.  In particular, please do not rant network-wide
about how wrong it was without reading it first!  Most of the popular
presentations of the material have oversimplified it; just Vol I is
200+ pages, including about 25 pages of color photos, and it does not
lend itself to being *accurately* summarized in a few paragraphs.
-- 
NASA is into artificial        |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
stupidity.  - Jerry Pournelle  | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu