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From: texmex@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Steve Patlan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Challenger" transcript
Date: 28 Apr 1996 13:56:05 -0500

>cmyers@mednet.swmed.edu (Craig Myers) asked:
>> [ What about that transcript thing? Is it for real ? ]

JoAnne Schmitz <jschmitz@qis.net> answered: >I am sure others will be glad to show the falsity of this transcript.
>My first experience with the thing was on the science conference of
>Fidonet in mid-1994. The person who debunked it for me then said he
>had seen it about a year earlier on the astronomy conference.
>
>Maybe I can reach him for more info.

A lot of info has already been collected. The last time (?) this came up here, Rick Adams put together a web page on it:

<http://www.winternet.com/~radams/chall/>

It includes, among other things, the transcript and its history, an official statement from NASA PAO, and a long technical discussion of the shuttle power system & why the transcript is bogus, written by a brilliant NASA engineer named "Steve Patland", or something very much like that.

Steve "I used to have time to read AFU" Patlan


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