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From: dlnash@ut-ngp.UUCP (Donald L. Nash)
Newsgroups: net.columbia,net.space
Subject: Re: SRB burn through
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 11:48:30 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 11:48:30 1986
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> With what now appears to be true, the right SRB seems to be a fault.  I
> seem to remember the on one of the original flights of the columbia, NASA
> noted that at least one of the SRBs came very close to burning through the
> outer skin.  If this is true, where there ever any corrective measures
> taken at the time?
>
> 			-- Brad Brahms
> 			   usenet: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!trwspp!brahms
>			   arpa:   Brahms@usc-eclc
>

One of the SRBs did come close to burn through on a previous mission,
but it was (you guessed it) on the Challenger, not the Columbia.  I read
an article in the local newspaper describing the the things which
happened to the Challenger.  That craft almost seemed cursed from the
beginning, if one believes in such things.  I don't remember if NASA
took any corrective measures or not.

					Don Nash

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