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Kevin Baron Profile picture
@DefenseBaron
Sep 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Just finished the wonderful #ChallengerTheFinalFlight documentary. Thank you to the creators, families, colleagues and journalists in it. (👋 @SangerNYT) I was a 10-yr old space geek when I saw the contrails over the horizon. Went to Space Camp next year. It honors their memory.
The 2016 NYT obit for Ebeling is as heartbreaking as the documentary's recollections of the Thiokol engineers who tried to stop the launch and those who agreed to go along with it. These men have carried unimaginable anguish for 30 years. nytimes.com/2016/03/26/sci…
After watching, I was surprised the documentary did not discuss the cause-of-death investigation into whether they survived the explosion. The not-knowing was a big part of the story. NBC's Jay Barbree report from 1997 is hard to read:
nbcnews.com/id/3078062/ns/…
"A blue astronaut jumpsuit bobbed to the surface, turned slowly and then disappeared again within the sea." And this -- I never knew this detail about recovering Greg Jarvis: nbcnews.com/id/3078060/ns/…

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Listening in to this...
Vickers, on Putin: "Is he the same person he was?"
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(Read this as, despite Russia's threats against anyone aiding Ukraine, the US/NATO isn't slowing its arms and equipment aid.)
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