When Was The Last Time You Went to New Hampshire?

[rearadmiral]

Can't beat a case of Popov. Cheers, sir.

Guaranteed cheap alcoholic.

[mcm]

or a poor alcoholic

[JJ]

JJ doesn't stand for Jimmie Johnson by chance does it?

[Boston]

isnt boston from new hampshire, or right on the border? you should know it pretty well no?

huh?

[Boston]

also, Portsmouth is awesome.

Had a blast.

[AY]

How was Applebees?

[MIKAELGM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnTVNZojojU

How was the Red Door Boston?

[rearadmiral]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... in-twitter

Not trying to be a dick here. But they really recovered remains from the Challenger?

the city she left behind is making sure she lives on where her husband still resides, her children grew up and her remains are buried.

[AY]

Well sure. I think all the bodies remained in the cockpit area.

[tballa55]

AY serious question, now that you don't work there anymore was the moon landing a hoax? I think so.

[rearadmiral]

Well sure. I think all the bodies remained in the cockpit area.

I thought the whole thing blew up/disintegrated/landed in water?

[AY]

AY serious question, now that you don't work there anymore was the moon landing a hoax? I think so.

Complete hoax. My office was in the building used to film the hoax before it was converted into offices.

Actually, my office was a WWII jail for German prisoners back in the day.

[tballa55]

I knew it.

[AY]

Well sure. I think all the bodies remained in the cockpit area.

I thought the whole thing blew up/disintegrated/landed in water?

Well, according to Wikipedia, her remains were among the ones unidentified and buried communally.

Recovery of debris
In the first minutes after the accident, recovery efforts were begun by NASA's Launch Recovery Director, who ordered the ships used by NASA for recovery of the solid rocket boosters to be sent to the location of the water impact. Search and rescue aircraft were also dispatched. At this stage, however, debris was still falling, and the Range Safety Officer (RSO) held both aircraft and ships out of the impact area until it was considered safe for them to enter. It was about an hour until the RSO allowed the recovery forces to begin their work.[22]

The search and rescue operations that took place in the first week after the Challenger accident were managed by the Department of Defense on behalf of NASA, with assistance from the United States Coast Guard, and mostly involved surface searches. According to the Coast Guard, "the operation was the largest surface search in which they had participated."[22] This phase of operations lasted until February 7. Thereafter, recovery efforts were managed by a Search, Recovery, and Reconstruction team; its aim was to salvage debris that would help in determining the cause of the accident. Sonar, divers, remotely operated submersibles and manned submersibles were all used during the search, which covered an area of 480 square nautical miles (1,600 kilometres (990 mi)²), and took place at depths of up to 370 metres (1,210 ft). On March 7, divers from the USS Preserver identified what might be the crew compartment on the ocean floor.[23][24] The finding, along with discovery of the remains of all seven crew members was confirmed the next day and on March 9, NASA announced the finding to the press.[25]

By May 1, enough of the right solid rocket booster had been recovered to determine the original cause of the accident, and the major salvage operations were concluded. While some shallow-water recovery efforts continued, this was unconnected with the accident investigation; it aimed to recover debris for use in NASA's studies of the properties of materials used in spacecraft and launch vehicles.[22] The recovery operation was able to pull 15 tons[vague] of debris from the ocean; 55% of Challenger, 5% of the crew cabin and 65% of the satellite cargo is still missing.[26] Some of the missing debris still washes up on Florida shores, such as on December 17, 1996, nearly 11 years after the incident, when two large pieces of the shuttle were found at Cocoa Beach.[27] Under Title 18, United States Code, Section 641 it is against the law to be in possession of Challenger debris and any newly discovered pieces have to be turned in to NASA.[28] All debris is currently maintained in a sealed former underground missile silo at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 31.
On board Challenger was an American flag, dubbed the Challenger flag, that was sponsored by Boy Scout Troop 514 of Monument, Colorado. It was recovered intact, still sealed in its plastic container.[29]

Funeral ceremonies

The remains of the crew that were identifiable were returned to their families on April 29, 1986. Two of the crew members, Dick Scobee and posthumously promoted Capt. Michael J. Smith, were buried by their families at Arlington National Cemetery at individual grave sites. Mission Specialist Lt Col Ellison Onizuka was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. Unidentified crew remains were buried communally at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial in Arlington on May 20, 1986.[30]

[rearadmiral]

Wow.

I never thought about it before.

I thought only Kennedys got plucked from the ocean floor.