Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: 17 inch Disconnect
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.012527.3478@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6996@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 90 01:25:27 GMT

In article <6996@alvin.mcnc.org> rinne@mcnc.org (Glenn A. Rinne) writes:
>How is the umbilical disconnect protected
>during re-entry?

Disconnects, actually, there are two of them.  Tile-covered doors close
over them just after the ET is jettisoned.
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