Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!vsi1!ubvax!pyramid!ctnews!tsnews!ward From: ward@tsnews.Convergent.COM (Ward Griffiths) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Weekly World News publishes Challenger tape transcript Message-ID: <1025@tsnews.Convergent.COM> Date: 29 Jan 91 21:19:24 GMT References: <57477530@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA Lines: 24 yetsko@interlan.interlan.com (Mike Yetsko) writes: >I read in one of the astronauts books that something like this DID >happen. Maybe it was Armstong. Anyway, on getting ready to leave the >lunar surface they discovered the circuit breaker that powers the >engine circuits was smashed. Evidently they banged it with one of the >lunar packs in all their moving around. They ended up jamming the >breaker on by hammering in a ball point pen. Wonder if it was a >BIC, and how the BIC people feel about it? This would have been right about the time when BIC was switching over from the all-metal tips that they used to strap to ice skates and shoot through planks, to the modern tiny bit of metal in a plastic cone. (Remember when you could unfreeze a BIC by sticking its point in a lighter flame?) So I'd hope it was the old style. But wait a minute, wasn't it Fischer that made the official "Space Pen"? With the 50psi of nitrogen pushing the ink out of the tip at any angle? -- Ward Griffiths, Unisys NCG aka Convergent Technologies The people that make Unisys' official opinions get paid more. A LOT more. =========================================================================== To Hell with "Only One Earth"! Try "At Least One Solar System"! If I say love, I'll sound sentimental, and if I say sex, I'll sound cynical. I'll call it pair bonding and sound scientific. The Golden Apple