Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Discovery's launch: Am I imagining things?
Message-ID: <1988Oct9.222804.26459@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1104@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <15722@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <5488@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <215@obie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 88 22:28:04 GMT

In article <215@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>The previous burn-throughs noted on the SRBs (yes, there *were* previous
>burn-throughs) did not occur in the flanges and o-ring assemblies.  The
>burn-throughs occurred in the case walls near the point where the case
>skin flared out to accept the flange...

Say what?!?  References, please.  This contradicts both the Rogers report
and all the AW&ST coverage of the post-Challenger investigations.  I've
never even heard of this theory.
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