Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnewsd!weiss
From: weiss@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (edward.j.weiss)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 06/27/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <294@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 89 14:25:17 GMT
References: <27682@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: weiss@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (ed.weiss)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 16

>          Friday to discuss the remaining work, including tile, and the
>          status of the investigation of the main engine test firing
>          incident at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi last Friday. All

What incident?

>          assembly (MCA), sends commands to the orbiter's vent doors,
>          external tank doors and orbital maneuvering system crossfeed

What do the vent doors and tank doors do?  Are the vent doors
just for releasing the boiled off gases?
-- 

Ed Weiss	   "I thought it was generally accepted, sir, that
att!ihlpf!spock     vulcans are an advanced and most honorable race."
		   "They are, they are.  And damn annoying at times."