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From: johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 09/26/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1609@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 17:29:43 GMT
References: <32580@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <334@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> <1989Oct6.163103.5070@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
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>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?


There is also, of course, the few pounds of explosives in the SRB and ET.  
Used by the Range Safty Officer in case these start heading (uncontrolled) 
into populated areas.  They had to use this on one of the Challenger SRBs.
-- 
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