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From: gamorris@lescsse.uucp (Gary A. Morris)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Columbia showing her age?
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.174851.1533@lescsse.uucp>
Date: 18 Dec 90 17:48:51 GMT
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In <559@newave.UUCP> john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) writes:

>I didn't even hear NASA talking about TAGS all that much.  On some flights,
>it seem that problems with TAGS (Text And Graphics System--the million dollar
>Shuttle fax machine) dominate the conversations between the orbiter and capcom.

The TAGS machine jams from time to time and the crew uses an special tool to
unjam it.  Around day 3 or so, the tool got broken and they gave up on TAGS.
The teleprinter was used for the rest of the flight.  I don't understand why
they haven't gotten TAGS to work without jamming after all these flights.

--GaryM
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