Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Blowing up the Shuttle
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.172343.4248@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <121.261FF149@ofa123.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 90 17:23:43 GMT

In article <121.261FF149@ofa123.FIDONET.ORG> rick@ofa123.FIDONET.ORG (Rick Ellis) writes:
>The are also charges on each SRB.  The three (ET, and 21 SRBs) charges are 
>ganged together to that if any one is armed, they all arm.  Ditto for firing.

One of the Rogers Commission's recommendations, in fact, was that it might
be worth investigating the possibility of separate arming and firing.
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