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To: JohnG45

“So why the guilt?”

NASA overruled his warning. It was said at the time that NASA overruled the warning because they felt pressured to go ahead with the launch so that President Ronald Reagan could have a press conference with the astronauts that night.


9 posted on 03/22/2016 9:41:21 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

So NASA blamed Reagan? No surprise, I guess. I am sure, if consulted with the facts, Reagan would have ordered it scrubbed.


18 posted on 03/22/2016 10:05:49 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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