Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Astronauts.....Alive?!?!?!?!???
Message-ID: <1988Sep21.165000.20167@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <15152@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <794@proxftl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 88 16:50:00 GMT

In article <794@proxftl.UUCP> greg@proxftl.UUCP (Gregory N. Hullender) writes:
>In article <15152@ames.arc.nasa.gov> chguest@nike.UUCP (Charles Guest  RCE) writes:
>>I have one followup question......Does yone on the net know 
>>where I can get a detailed written account of the Challenger
>>accident and the post accident investigation including details
>>and possibly photographs of the wreckage of the accident?
>
>I thought "Challenger: A Major Malfunction" by Malcom Boyd (I think that's
>the author) was very complete...

If you are seriously interested in the matter, one document you obviously
want to read, which contains a detailed account of the accident and the
investigation, complete with photos, is the report of the investigation!
The complete report may be fairly hard to find, but the first volume --
essentially the complete report minus a lot of supporting documentation --
should (I hope) be in any good public library.  Look for "Report of the
Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Accident".  (I'll post a
more detailed reference when I get home tonight.)

The report was a slightly hurried job, since the commission had a firm
deadline to meet, and some doubts have been raised about certain aspects
since, but it is definitely the right place to start.
-- 
NASA is into artificial        |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
stupidity.  - Jerry Pournelle  | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu