Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Atlantis has a leak like Columbia's
Message-ID: <15651@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 90 10:45:13 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <1228@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  I assume that while I was away someone noted that while there is a
>leak, it's not like Columbia's at all. They are both hydrogen leaks, but
>because they are not the same there is reason to conclude that there is
>not a generic problem.

It's not clear why the leaks would have to be in the same location for
there to be a "generic" problem, in the sense that something in the
post-Challenger regimen makes leaks easier to create or harder to
catch.

At any rate, with two out of the three shuttles affected and no data on
Discovery, there is a MAJOR problem, "generic" or otherwise.