Didn’t say it

A memoir in the July 13 Magazine about an explosion at a summer day camp incorrectly reported a NASA statement on the shuttle Challenger disaster. NASA eventually did release the transcripts of the astronauts’ voice recordings, and there was no mention of an astronaut saying, “Please, hold my hand.” Link

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This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on July 23, 2008 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. Brad
    Posted July 23, 2008 at 5:43 pm | Permalink

    Looks like the WaPo needs to fact check their stories on snopes.com before running them.

    http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/challenger.asp

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