Timeline for Could Dick Scobee have flown a RTLS on Challenger 51L
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| Nov 7, 2018 at 14:21 | comment | added | Challenger Truth | I think that is really the point I am making. NASA during Apollo looked at potential failure modes and developed ways to prevent them. NASA under STS, was run by contractors as a profit proposition. MTI, Lockheed and others weren't going to spend money looking at unexpected failure modes and see if they could be avoided. The "official" answer was if a failure occurred before SRB separation, the crew died, period. No one wanted to look at this or any other alternative, Failure was an option. | |
| Nov 5, 2018 at 21:39 | comment | added | Mark | @ChallengerTruth, I don't have the actual charts, but it was basically "evaluate the situation and decide between a 'direct abort' trajectory and a 'free return' trajectory". From a flight-dynamics standpoint, Apollo didn't have any non-survivable situations. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 19:15 | history | edited | Organic Marble | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 5, 2018 at 23:29 | comment | added | Challenger Truth | I wonder what NASA's chart for loss of both O2 tanks on the CM after TLI would look like?? | |
| Aug 4, 2018 at 19:21 | history | answered | Organic Marble | CC BY-SA 4.0 |