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A comment on The Space Shuttle’s Controversial Launch Abort Plan. Parent comment

Re:The Space Shuttle’s Controversial Launch Abort Plan by masklinn on Monday October 13, 2014 @02:38AM (#8447716)
> Did the writer just forget about the Challenger mission

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

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Re:The Space Shuttle’s Controversial Launch Abort Plan by pdonis on Monday October 13, 2014 @09:26PM (#8451495)
> 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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