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From: serre@boulder.Colorado.EDU (SERRE GLENN)
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Subject: Reusing engines (was Re: SSME's)
Summary: Titan engines, for example, are all test-fired before flight.
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Date: 16 Nov 90 15:05:30 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.164306.5927@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Lest anyone claim that reusability makes the difference, note that all
>regeneratively-cooled liquid engines are reusable in principle, and some

In fact, all Titan LREs are test-fired at least once before flight.  I 
imagine this is also the case with other expendables.  

Another bit of Titan trivia from


--Glenn Serre
gaserre@nyx.cs.du.edu   (serre@tramp.colorado.edu will disappear soon. :-( )