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From: pjs@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Blowing Up the Shuttle
Keywords: figures from USBI
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Date: 11 Apr 90 16:14:59 GMT
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In article <9689@ingr.com>, whitehrc@ingr.com (Robert C. Whitehead) writes:
> I finally got the definitive figures from my reliable source
> (aka my brother-in-law, who wrote the specs and redlines
> for the Range Saftey System on STS).  I have appended them with
> the parameters of the explosion.
>[...] 
> CASE STUDY #2
> 
> Range Safety declared on the pad; only the ET RS device triggers.
> Only the ET explodes.

I'd be curious to know where they get off speculating that the ET could
blow up without setting off the SRBs.  With a fireball of 589' radius,
and considering that the SRBs have their own oxidizer mixed in with them
and require little more than a spark to ignite, this seems an unlikely
scenario indeed.

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