Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 09/26/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1989Oct6.163103.5070@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <32580@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <334@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 89 16:31:03 GMT

In article <334@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> dant@mrloog.WR.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque) writes:
>>               Overnight, workers installed ordnance devices and tested the
>>          firing circuits on the vehicle. 
>
>"Ordnance devices"?  "firing circuits"?  What, pray tell, are they going to
>blow up?  Are these devices explosive bolts or photon torpedoes?

Most modern launchers are full of explosive bolts, explosive cable cutters,
explosive-actuated valves, etc.  The shuttle is no exception.
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