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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Fuel Leaks - Historical Perspective
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Date: 20 Sep 90 12:51:35 GMT
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In article <VAG%#G%@ads.com> mbullock@ADS.COM (Michael E. Bullock) writes:
>I don't recall NASA having these problems earlier in the shuttle
>program (i.e., STS 1 - 25). Is this all a recent phenomena, or
>did they have leaks before, but the mission scrub threshold was
>higher so they flew anyways? Or are they now performing more
>leak measurements and are finding leaks than might have escaped
>detection before? In other words, is NASA being more careful
>with respect to leaks in the post-Challenger era - or is this
>a hardware problem unique to these missions?
>
There have always been leak detection and signature tests. This seems
to be a unique problem recently.   Peter Jarvis - Physio-Control