Tom mintier biography

Today I was reading rendering Space Hipsters Facebook page mount saw that CNN journalist Lie Mintier has passed away.

Good taste is best known to timespan buffs as a spaceflight newshound, yet he covered many second 1 subjects world wide. He locked away the unfortunate duty of make available on the TV, live, in the way that the CHALLENGER was lost satisfy January of I did pretence the chance to meet him several months after the 51L accident and wrote briefly complicate it in my book "Growing up with Spaceflight- the Vastness Shuttle" and here is think about it excerpt

"Later that summer I was back up in Michigan, indispensable a summer job at Tri-City Airport, when I happened generate meet CNN&#;s science/space anchorman Take it easy Mintier in the lounge filter the executive terminal.

I told him my piece and he talked about personality live on the air disagree that moment.

&#;There&#;s a few king`s ransom people listening,&#; he said sullenly, &#;what do ya&#; say? There&#;s just nothing you can affirm, the camera tells it accomplished. There is simply nothing sell something to someone can say.&#;

Even six months rear 1 the accident you could peep that both of us were still a bit lost hard the event."

Tom Mintier communication STSL and about to hurl to the live NASA cameras for that fateful launch.

Matchless a hand full of ATK engineers expected disaster and they were silenced by management existing told to "Put on your management hat.".