See <http://tinyurl.com/yoj3jp>:
"The *news-babble* as you put it didn't think to slow-motion the video
and watch the progression of the vehicle destruction, something which
I did the next morning for the NASA engineers at JSC. For better or
worse, we all had secret clearances, and were told that the accident
investigation was *secret* until information was officially released
by the Presidential Commission."
I have to wonder if Bill lived in a vacuum. Dan Rather had slow-motion
video up (with an expert narrating) immediately after the Speakes
press conference. That was at least two hours before the Moore news
conference at 4:15 pm (all on launch day).
From <http://tinyurl.com/33wzob>:
"First of all, let's set the record straight...there was NO explosion.
The vehicle was destroyed by aerodynamic and mechanical forces when
the right SRB broke free from the vehicle stack. In the process of
breaking free, the nose of the right SRB breached the intertank area
of the ET and poked a hole in the bottom of the Oxygen tank. The
oxygen ignited, which was visible as a yellow glow between the Orbiter
and the ET. The destruction sequence had already begun at the time the
glow became visible. Also in
the process of breaking free, the SRB knocked the right wing off the
Orbiter, and when the SRB broke free, the thrust imbalance between the
right and left sides on the ET caused the aft dome weld to fail, thus
releasing all of the Liquid Hydrogen from the ET.
Bill Ferreira
former TV Producer/Director
Taft Broadcasting (NASA JSC TV Contractor)
current Instructor of Communications
Houston Community College"
Wel, well, well, a little Hollywood in there after all.
Notice that Bill gives no *time* for when "the SRB knocked the right
wing off the Orbiter" and no *camera number* for this event,
In the sequence he descibes, shouldn't that be easily visible here?
http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v1p28.htm
Or even here?
http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v1p29.htm
I think a whole bunch of turnips fell off that NASA truck.
JTM
