I remember one female reporter asked President Reagan at his news conference after the event, "Did you know it was going to blow up"? Think about that question. Her hatred of Reagan and conservatives was so great that she basically accused him of having it blown up.
[ I remember one female reporter asked President Reagan at his news conference after the event, “Did you know it was going to blow up”? Think about that question. Her hatred of Reagan and conservatives was so great that she basically accused him of having it blown up. ]
The real culprits of Challenger and Colombia in my opinion were the knuckleheads in the early 70’s in congress (mostly liberals) but also some security wonks in congress that kept gutting the budget for NASA for more welfare and gibs me dats program funding while asking NASA to redesign the shuttle for more and more differing uses (one of those being launching large SPY satellites) since they scrapped the reliable Saturn V and IIb launch vehicle(s).
The shuttle was originally supposed to be a lot smaller and a re-usable vehicle setting ATOP a stack of boosters to get it into space not ASIDE the boosters (this design flaw is what caused both Challenger and Colombia disasters). The only way side by side stacking works is if you are doing both horizontal takeoff and landing from a runway, not takeoff from a launch pad.
The smaller shuttle would have relied on separate launches of Saturn Rockets to do the heavy lifting for building the space shuttle.
Yep, the Left is doing the same thing to Trump and Cruz now - amazing their hatred.