From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: New SRB Bolts
Article-I.D.: alice.1092
Posted: Wed Nov 10 17:39:07 1982
Received: Fri Nov 12 04:54:23 1982

NASA replaced the breakaway bolts on the parachute apparatus on
the SRB's with solid bolts in hopes of preventing a recurrence
of STS-4's booster mishap.  In it, the bolts, which connect the
parachutes to the boosters, broke away too early and the boosters
fell unhindered to the ocean and promptly sank.