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From: root@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US (Mark J. Bailey)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Discovery's launch: Am I imagining things?
Summary: at least they can recover the booster this time (in tact!)
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Date: 30 Sep 88 16:07:23 GMT
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Well, if there was some sort of O-ring burn thru, at least they will have
a better chance of examining the booster somewhat in tact to get a better
idea of what was happening.  Peter Jennings on ABC mentioned the existence
of the plume and they focusses in on it briefly in a replay.  He went on
to say that engineers examined it and decided that there was no immediate
danger, but that is the media talking.  I would be some of the engineers
caught it and were a little anxious to get those boosters off Discovery's
sides.

I myself noticed it on the real-time liftoff but just figured that it was
just debris blow rampid as it left the booster nozzle.

Any NASA people online to comment?

Mark.

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