James Neill

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Just started looking through it - very interesting so far

10Mb Adobe PDF download

http://www.caib.us/news/report/default.html

carl

Ah, the wonders of the Internet. I had to write off to ESA to get a copy of the Ariane 5 launch failure report.

Download starting...

TopBanana

OK, I'll bite... Why did you do that?

carl

Because I'd just left university having completed a degree in astrophysics, and was interested in finding out. At the time I was working in a software QA department, so as it turned out the report was very relevant as the entire failure was down to poor QA and testing procedures (e.g. "that bit worked on Ariane 4 so we won't have to test it again..." )

This was in 1995 or 1996, when stuff like that wasn't published on the web. Yes, there were things on the web, but it wasn't all-pervasive like it is now. When I did my MSc in 1997 I actually had to look up stuff in a library

[Edited by carl - 8/26/2003 10:09:45 PM]

TopBanana

Ah of course, I remember you contributing to my OU thread now Tis amazing how the 'net has sped everything up

super_si

Awesome

So how long for the return to Launch status?

Booked Floria a year last sunday actually hoping to catch some action when im there

248 page what number you on :P
Si

[Edited by super_si - 8/27/2003 8:35:48 AM]

carl

Actually a lot of it is crap. Stuff about the history of the space shuttle and how it works, etc. Details of the crew and the science experiments. Of course some of the history is necessary in order to understand the culture at NASA, but I felt it could have been a lot shorter and concentrated on what went wrong, why it went wrong and what they're going to do about it.

I think they should have ditched all the glossy photos too

super_si

i think the pictures look good

Up to page 28 lol

Si