Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpl!knudsen
From: knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Vandenburg never to used?
Summary: Say what?  Bad contractor?
Message-ID: <7199@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 88 18:48:47 GMT
References: <41680@pyramid.pyramid.com> <22000004@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <221@obie.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <221@obie.UUCP>, wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
> get the orbiter under control :-).  The problem with SLC-6 at Vandenberg
> is that the welds in the launch complex itself are unsafe; it has
> nothing to do with geography.  (And yes, I *can* spell Vandenberg; you

You mean the gantry, pad, and/or crawler were built with
shoddy workmanship?  Sleazy subcontractor using scab labor?
Can we sentence the responsible party to life in Morton Thiokol's
salt mines?  Seriously, can the welds be fixed, or is the weakness
to all-pervasive?  Enquiring minds wanna "no."
-- 
Mike Knudsen  Bell Labs(AT&T)   att!ihlpl!knudsen
"Lawyers are like handguns and nuclear bombs.  Nobody likes them,
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