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From: stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier)
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Subject: Re: Atlantis has a leak like Columbia's
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Date: 5 Jul 90 19:53:12 GMT
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In article <9772@pt.cs.cmu.edu> vac@sam.cs.cmu.edu (Vincent Cate) writes:
>I was just watching NASA sellect and the tests this morning on
>Atlantis have shown a leak so it will not be flying soon.  
>It seems they do not have spare "umbilicals" to connect
>shuttles to tanks.  They took Endevour's for Columbia.
>I think they said it would take over a year to make another
>one.  Things look very bad.
>
>   -- Vince

Over a year???  Do they have some Joe Schmoe working on building
it with hand tools or something?  Jeez.  You can accomplish one
hell of a lot in a year, and making an umbilical to connect the
shuttle to the tank doesn't seem like it could possibly take that
long.
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