Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 06/27/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <14430@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 89 15:23:12 GMT
References: <27682@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <3330021@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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What actually happened was that a turbopump "flew apart" during a static
firing test of an SSME (an engine removed from Discovery, I think).
Nothing happened to Columbia at all.  But until they figure out why the
pump self-destructed, they can't rule out a similar threat to Columbia.
Hence the potential for a schedule hit -- they won't fly with this question
unanswered.
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"My God, Thiokol, when do you     \\	Tom Neff
want me to launch -- next April?"  \\	uunet!bfmny0!tneff