Re: "Columbia" - NOT!

[pdCampbell@goodyear.com (pDaleCampbell)]

In r.m.g.on Mon, 06 May 1996 12:00:48 -0100, Wieland Willker
<willker@chemie.uni-bremen.de> alleges:

>I can't believe that!
>Are you playing foolish tricks on me?
>Is this a love-hounds membership test? 

>I hear: "Well we're now at..."

>The excellent Mike Gallaher wrote:
>>Considering that the recordings are presumably legitimate clips of
>>communications with the NASA Space Shuttle, they must derive from mission
>>STS-8, launched August 30, 1983, which was the only flight sufficiently
>>prior to the release of HOL that included onboard anyone named "Dan,"
>>namely Daniel Brandenstein, who, as pilot of the mission, is the person
>>who would most likely be reporting flight data to the ground. That mission
>>was flown on the Orbiter Challenger, not Columbia. 

>Thank you, Mike, you're my man!
>Did you all read this???
>Now, it's YOUR turn! Arguments, please!

There is NO REASON to assume that "Dan" is a member of the shuttle crew!  In
fact, I am STRONGLY convinced that Dan is the groundcrew member that is
tracking the shuttle's speed; the "Roger that, Dan" sounds like >IT< is coming
from the shuttle (Dan's voice is much clearer), meaning Dan is ON THE GROUND!

I don't understand why Mike, with an address of
"gallamw@mollybloom.msfc.nasa.gov", doesn't see this.

Oh, by the way... It's "Columbia now at...".

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