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From: leem@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: SRB Assembly and Transport
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Date: 11 Oct 88 20:43:12 GMT
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In article <491@fabscal.UUCP> dorn@fabscal.UUCP (Alan Dorn Hetzel, Jr.) writes:
|Since it is probably impractical to transport the SRBs cross-country from
|where they are currently manufactured to the cape, what about moving the
|manufacturing facility to Florida (or anywhere on the coast (either coast))
|for that matter.  Shipping by ship should prove easy.  Any comments?
|
|Dorn
|gatech.edu!fabscal!dorn
|
|p.s. I realize that moving the manufacturing facility would be expensive in
|     the short term, but the long term savings over many launches might be
|     worth it...

It already exists, Aerojet has a casting facility just south of the
cape that is large enough to handle the SRB's in a single cast.  They
made an unsolicited proposal to NASA during the SRB redesign, to do
just that.

Lee

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