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From: DOHC@TUCCVM.BITNET (Bob Roberds)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Discovery's launch: Am I imagining things?
Message-ID: <119DOHC@TUCCVM>
Date: 30 Sep 88 04:43:27 GMT
References: <1104@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <3811@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Triangle Universities Computation Center
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>It may well be that we are all misinterpreting what we saw.  Perhaps it was
>some minor and/or entirely normal event.  All may be well, but I think that
>there is at least a moderate probability that, after looking at the many
>available camera angles and inspecting the recovered SRB's, NASA will
>announce that this morning's launch only narrowly escaped disaster.
>If there was another O-ring burn through, it will surely AT LEAST mean
>another major delay in the shuttle program.

Tonite on the news I heard that NASA had found no evidence of a burn-through
fire on the recovered SRBs.  Let us frigging hope they're right.
Geez, how could you have burn-through with the new flange and three-ring
system?  If it happened, we can all look foward to another two and a half
years of frustration and (hopefully) the death sentence for the managers
at Morton Thiokol.