Omni (Heavens, how I miss that magazine) published a short story called "Two minutes, thirty-seven seconds" a couple of years after Challenger. In the story, a NASA engineer who had advocated Challenger's launch was to fly to a hearing with the other engineers who had felt the same. The guilt had destroyed him. Before the flight, he figured out at what speed and altitude the little corporate jet would be at where an accident would cause a 2:37 fall from the sky. He rigged a bomb on one wingroot and triggered it at the right moment.
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Date: 2006-02-15 03:26 pm (UTC)Enough of that now, though.
Mars, and do it Zubrin's way.