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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Fuel-line door questions...
Message-ID: <675@newave.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 91 23:25:54 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.204556.16156@athena.mit.edu> <1991Feb26.112746.11838@pbs.org> <1991Feb26.230611.4715@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Feb26.230611.4715@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov> cornutt@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (David Cornutt) writes:
> I don't know if the onboard systems will indicate the status of the door,
> but the MCC certainly can tell.  Having them not closed is not
> necessarily fatal.  I'll have to go look up the procedure for that.

If you know about it in advance, i.e. in orbit before re-entry, this
problem should not be fatal.  All they would have to do is send up
Columbia or Atlantis to pick up the crew of Discovery.  You might also
have to send up a Progress resupply ship (or two) for the crew while they
wait for the next shuttle to be mission ready  8-(

If Discovery could not safely re-enter, rename it "Freedom" and call the
mission a success.  At least we would have some space station hardware
in orbit as a result.

-john-

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