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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Challenger explosion.  SRB's when cold?
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Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 16:33:03 EST
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> The early reports have it that one of the SRB's may have exploded.

Given that both SRBs continued on out of the explosion cloud, more or
less intact and more or less in the right direction (initially), it is
difficult to see how there could have been any serious problem with
either of them.

The unusually cold weather in Florida, and the admitted icing problems
it caused, are definitely suspicious.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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