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From: belmonte@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: LIFE Boisjoly Interview
Message-ID: <2046@svax.cs.cornell.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 88 04:42:05 GMT
References: <148@falkor.UUCP>
Reply-To: belmonte@sleepy.cs.cornell.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
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Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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Keywords: Boisjoly nozzle joint

In article <148@falkor.UUCP> heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes:
>In the March 1988 issue of LIFE magazine, there is in interview of Roger
>Boisjoly, of Morton Thiokol O-ring fame.  It starts on page 17.  On page
>22, Boisjoly makes the following statement (about the nozzle joint):
[QUOTATION DELETED]
In a talk he gave here at Cornell recently, Boisjoly was asked about the nozzle
joint and in response put up a viewgraph of something that had been designated
as an alternative design and said (words may not be exact) "This is the joint
they should be using."  I can't recall the particulars, but his point was that
the current design (correct me if I'm wrong) has the joint penetrated by many
steel screws which connect the nozzle section to the bottom section of the SRB,
and as a result there is a nontrivial probability of its being corrupted by
pressure.  I wish I could picture exactly what that joint he had up on the
screen looked like.
-- 
Matthew Belmonte
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