Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: STS-40 Press Kit
Message-ID: <1991May21.165802.10838@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 16:58:02 GMT
References: <91136.092515TNEDDERH@ESOC.BITNET> <1991May17.034042.16781@agate.berkeley.edu> <150@toad.horizon.COM>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <150@toad.horizon.COM> schriber@horizon.COM (Mike Schriber) writes:
>About the Challenger making an ATO:  Does anyone know what caused the abort
>mode on that flight?

Malfunctioning temperature sensors shut down one engine (and came close to
shutting down another; they were manually overridden).
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And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry