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From: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 02/22/91 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <4505@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Date: 6 Mar 91 15:21:20 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.223855.6112@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1991Feb27.123109.540@axion.bt.co.uk>
Reply-To: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer)
Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Eagan, MN
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In article <1991Feb27.123109.540@axion.bt.co.uk> sjeyasin@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk writes:
 >>           - Evaluation of cracks in hinges for the external tank right  and
 >>           left doors.
 >		 ^^^^^
 >Anyone able to say what these are ? Hard to imagine what kind of doors a tank
 >can have.

These are the doors in the belly of the shuttle that allow
connection to the external tank, not doors in the tank itself.
Since these doors are in a high temperature area during
reentry, it would be considered Not Good if they fell off or
something during launch.
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