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masklinn on Oct 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Space Shuttle’s Controversial Launch Abort Pla...

> Did the writer just forget about the Challenger mission

Challenger didn't even remotely have the occasion to try RTLS.

pdonis on Oct 14, 2014 [–]

> Challenger didn't even remotely have the occasion to try RTLS.

I know. The point is that it didn't "cleanly avoid" it either, at least not on any reasonable (to me) interpretation of "cleanly".

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