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From: ewiles@netxdev.DHL.COM (Edwin Wiles)
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Subject: An expensive slip!
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Date: 5 Dec 89 16:36:15 GMT
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Reprinted without permission from "Air & Space", December 1989/January 1990,
Calendar, Anniversaries, page 19:

1988
December 1	A technician readying a Boeing rocket for launch aboard the
space shuttle slips on the hem of his lab coat and bangs into the rocket's
first stage, leaving a four-inch crack in the exhaust nozzle.  The entire first
stage had to be replaced at a cost of $6 million.  Press coverage of the mishap
omitted the tecnician's name, sparing him public humiliation.



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