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From: eagle@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle tiles
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.222508.14408@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 22:25:08 GMT
References: <17415@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <1990Nov9.131430.3134@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <45346@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: eagle@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu)
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In article <45346@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v071pzp4@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>In article <1990Nov9.131430.3134@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, eagle@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu) writes...
>>In article <17415@thorin.cs.unc.edu> ornat@ornat.cs.unc.edu (Steven Ornat) writes:
>>>Here is a question that I have been wondering about for a while.
>>>
>>>Does NASA still have to replace tiles on the shuttle after they
>>>return or has that problem been solved?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>SteveO
>>>
>> 
>>Steve,
>>  To the best of my knowledge, that problem has been solved.  If my
>>memory serves me correctly (yeah, right!), the problem was solved soon
>[B>after the flight(s?) of the Enterprise.
>
>I'm no expert, but Enterprise never had tiles. It was Columbia that
>lost all her tiles after riding the Boeing 905 from California to
>Florida. I'm not certain why they all fell off, but the problem
>has been pretty well solved.
>
>Craig Cole
>V071PZP4@UBVMS.BITNET
>V071PZP4@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU

I may be wrong. I always thought it was the Columbia that rode on the
Boeing.
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Daniel C. L'Hommedieu III             Internet:  eagle@catt.ncsu.edu
Prodigy ID: BCCJ33D                             dclhomm@eos.ncsu.edu