Today is the 19th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. I remember listening to the flight live on CBS radio back in college as if it was yesterday ( 1/27 also not a good day in 1967 as it was the day of the Apollo 1 fire, but I was slightly over 1 yr. Old so I don't recall that).
Its a slow day here at work, so I was catching up on technical research (that sounds good) on the internet and reading some posts written by a friend I know that used to work for NASA, James Oberg and also to a new individual that I don't know yet, a Dr. Pat Santy, who happened to be the flight surgeon on duty at the time of the Challenger disaster.
Both bring up many excellent points about what happened and why, and sadly how we've failed to correct the problems over the span of 38 years and 3 fatal incidents(can't call them accidents as there was no chance or bad luck involved, just poor management and judgment by some who should have known better).
I'm going to pass the URL of this BLOG onto Dr. Santy - there's not much here, but I guess I'll have to start to write more. Hopefully we will get to correspond in email and I will get to know her as well as I do Jim. Both seem like fine individuals.
More later, time to check the MiSys Lab systems as the Patrol monitor is telling me the disks are approaching 90% full. Purge scripts should clear that up.
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