On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Michael Wallis wrote:
> There's a very interesting article over on SpaceDaily about testemony
> given to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board by Robert Thompson...
A note of caution: in several places, Thompson's testimony to the CAIB
does not match solidly-documented historical fact (or reports from other
eyewitnesses). Do not, repeat not, accept it as automatically reliable.
It was a long time ago and he isn't remembering everything accurately.
(One space-historian consultant to the Board, who happens to be a friend
of mine, described his work for them as "doing damage control on history".)
That said, I have no specific historical quarrels with the comments quoted
in that particular article. People *do* forget these things if they
aren't properly written down, and the handoff from developers to operators
is a notorious point of information loss.
Henry Spencer
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