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From: nick@pro-canaveral.cts.com (Nick Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 12/04/90 (Forwarded)
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Date: 11 Dec 90 10:08:45 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from bro@eunomia.rice.edu

        The parachutes from the SRB's are indeed recovered and refurbished at
the Parachute Refurbishment Facility, located in the KSC industrial area to
the south of the O&C building.
        One set of boosters were lost on the STS-4 mission
(Mattingly/Hartsfield). A dual parachute malfunction (probably occurred during
packing) caused the SRB's to hit the water at too high a velocity and they
both sank.
Nick Thomas.

Nick Thomas

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