The Challenger Disaster Page #3

What are we doing here if we don't think it's possible?

Right?

Er... Chairman Rogers, I headed an investigation

into the failure of a Titan rocket,

and I suggest I outline the procedure we used there.

I appreciate the offer, General Kutyna,

but I think in this case there's far less collectable evidence.

I don't like to contradict you, sir, but in the case of the shuttle,

as there are human beings aboard,

it generates far more database material.

Mr Rogers, what the general said is the case.

There are external cameras, there are black box recordings,

there are telemetry sensors, there's a great deal of information.

Thank you, General Kutyna.

And Mr Armstrong.

I'm certain we can get back to this.

Please, anyone.

Chairman. Yes.

I don't know about anyone else, but, um...

Coming in, I got some major press attention.

I'd like to know what we're to say.

For the sake of the astronaut families,

what are we saying at this point?

This is very important.

Any and all enquiries from the press

are to be directed to Chairman Rogers's office.

So, the plan is...

lady and gentlemen...

we will reconvene in five days' time.

But for the present, enjoy your stay in Washington.

What?

We're not going to..? That's it.

Keel. We don't start right away?

Great.

Dr Feynman.

Bill Graham, head of NASA.

Thank you.

You're the guy that got me into this.

Well, I took your physics lectures way back, never forgotten.

I think you're going to bring something unique to the Commission.

I abandoned my teaching and a lot of important consulting to come here,

didn't imagine I was going to be told to sit on my tush for a week.

So, here's what I'm going to need.

I'm going to need a crash course in shuttle design.

I need to know everything on how this thing was put together,

so if you can start supplying me with the technical manuals and so forth,

and most of all, you gotta get me straight on the factory floor.

Pretty new to NASA myself -

I actually only took over two months ago.

That's bad timing.

We're based here in Washington,

but the shuttle engines and systems

are all out of the Marshall Space Flight Center.

It pretty much takes care of itself.

You're the head of the whole shmeer,

I mean, you can get me in this Marshall place,

otherwise I'm a busy fella.

I'll do my best. I'll get on it right away.

Right, thanks.

I like that you didn't let up there on the mighty chairman.

You take it. I don't care for limousines.

Well, neither do I -

I'm just a two-star general, don't get assigned a limousine.

Take the subway.

Hmm.

Pleasure. You too.

Taxi!

Oh, and there was a phone call for you, sir.

Please call your doctor.

Dr... Weiss?

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