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From: johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Replacement for Challenger
Message-ID: <813@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 88 18:04:33 GMT
Reply-To: johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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My Brother-in-law works for a large aerospace contractor in Tulsa, he
told me last night that he had visited the shop in their plant where they
were constructing a new set of shuttle cargo bay doors.  For the challenger
replacement.  He also told me that they had already shipped the first pair
and that they had been damaged while unloading in Florida, so now they are
makeing 1.5 sets (a spare just in case).

Are there 2 new shuttles, the challenger replacement AND a shuttle-C (as yet
under planning, as Henry suggests).

This also leads me to the question, if the doors are fairly fragile, could
one be damaged by banging a recovered satalite or shuttle-C engine pod? And
what would be the concequense?
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