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