This means that visually it's potentially twice as large, and reflective flares from the sun will be exceptionally bright. Get your last-chance Mir sightings while they last. The engineer who tried to stop Challenger . It's not news, it was never a secret, it is not knowable, and there was nothing that could be done. The sad thing, for me, is that the slashdotters don't see the relevancy of this incident to the life of programming to which they mostly aspire.
Curmudgeon points to seriously flawed data analysis by the people involved.
Update on NASA's preparation for wide-ranging reforms . On the other hand, this will have a very negative effect on other NASA programs, some pork, some valuable. In a word, yes . Historically, by the 1980s, almost all of the supermarket broadsheets were owned by two companies in earnest rivalry both based in Palm Beach. I just hope one of them remains America's trusted source of news about three-headed dinosaur babies from outer space.