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From: ahughes@dg-rtp.dg.com (Arch Hughes)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 10/05/90 (Forwarded)
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Date: 15 Oct 90 15:23:16 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.024332.20867@news.arc.nasa.gov> <3833@awdprime.UUCP> <5758@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <5758@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, dil@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Perry G
Ramsey) writes:
|> In article <3833@awdprime.UUCP>, tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul
Chamberlain) writes:
|> > In article <1990Oct9.024332.20867@news.arc.nasa.gov> yee writes:
|> > >... Another task on tap for today is to  fill  the  water  tower 
beside  the
|> > >          launch pad with water for the sound suppression system.
|> > 
|> > Was that a joke?
|> 
|> Nope!  The big water tower beside the shuttle dumps water on to the
|> pad during liftoff.  A major function of this is to reduce the
|> sound that bounces off the pad and back to the vehicle.
|> They also have these big bags of water under the solids which
|> break up and absorb  the sound.
|> 
Is it fresh or salt water?  I hear that good drinking water,
or swamp filling water if your an alligator, is getting harder
to come by in Florida.

Arch Hughes