Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!haddock!stevel
From: stevel@haddock.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Fire after Discovery Shutdown? - (nf)
Message-ID: <203@haddock.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 23:36:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.203
Posted: Fri Jul  6 23:36:02 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jul-84 00:21:36 EDT
Lines: 10

#R:decwrl:-234400:haddock:10400003:000:370
haddock!stevel    Jul  6 11:15:00 1984

It is standard procedure to shoot water all over the thrust deflectors
just below the engine starting just before launch. This help keep
the metal from melting away, or just weakening too much. That is
probably what you saw. I assume the engine just burned itself out
once the fuel was shut off.

Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {amd70|ihnp4!cbosgd}!ima!stevel