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From: wagner@utcs.uucp (Michael Wagner)
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Subject: NASA reported "close to explanation"
Message-ID: <1075@utcs.uucp>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 06:30:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 06:30:00 1986
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Reply-To: wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner)
Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX
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Summary: The seams on the SRB(s) are under suspicion


On the 6AM news this morning, the CBC reported that NASA may be close
to an explanation for the recent disaster.  Seems there is some concern
about whether seams on the SRBs might have failed under stress.  There
followed some talk about how there are 1800 bolts (do they really mean
bolts rather than rivets?), and each is installed by a technician,
and he and his supervisor sign a book saying they have checked it out.
Then another inspector comes along, and a combination of visual and
instrument checks occur.  There was more, but I was only half listening
until half way through, when I realized what I was hearing.

Michael