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Idly reading about the #Challenger #SpaceShuttle explosion

....and I think I found a time traveler.

The previous several launch attempts were scrubbed for various reasons. The day before the launch:

"Monday was the next opportunity, but a screw failed to release from the crew hatch of the orbiter. A drill was ordered to be driven to the pad, but the battery was flat. ***Nine more batteries were sent to the pad, but all, for no apparent reason, became flat by the time they arrived at the launch pad.**" Time ran out and the launch attempt was scrubbed." [emphasis mine]

nasaspaceflight.com/2007/01/re

How does that happen? And how does someone, after changing a battery **4 times**, decide they need 5 more tried *using the same drill*?

NASASpaceFlight.com · Remembering the mistakes of Challenger - NASASpaceFlight.comOn this day, 21 years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger and her crew of seven…

#challenger #NASA #courage #resist
“I am mindful of the sacrifices of these astronauts,taught me an early lesson: we are mortal, we need to remember those who fell for..our country, human knowledge.I know that not many people will do anything about the 39th ann. explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. We are all distracted by another, very real crisis. But please think about these seven human beings who were beyond brave, because, like them, we need to be brave now.”

open.substack.com/pub/jackohma

Jack Ohman's You Betcha! · The Challenger disaster, 39 years later...Von Jack Ohman’s You Betcha!

Remember the pioneers!

// NASA image via History.com: The five astronauts and two payload specialists of the STS 51-L crew in January of 1986: (left to right, starting in front row) astronauts Michael J. Smith, Francis R. (Dick) Scobee and Ronald E. McNair; and Ellison S. Onizuka, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis and Judith A. Resnik.