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From: knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: USSR shuttle
Summary: Different story
Message-ID: <7459@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 Nov 88 19:17:22 GMT
References: <26195@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <5475@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Hmmm, now we're getting confusing info here about why Buran
didn't fire.  Yesterday someone posted that the launch was postponed
first due to an onboard computer problem (didn't some other country"s
first shuttle launch have the same trouble ;-) ?).
They fixed that but next the "igniter system" showed problems.
They had to drain ("scrub") the fuel tanks to work on that one,
so the day was cancelled.

Today we hear that part of the gantry wouldn't swing back.
I know parts of ours don't swing away until about t-2 minutes.
Our Apollo rockets had gantry supports that swung away at liftoff;
I always wondered what would happen if one of them stuck --
nothing very humorous I suspect.

Anyway, I have Nov 7 penciled in on my pocket calendar.
-- 
Mike Knudsen  Bell Labs(AT&T)   att!ihlpl!knudsen
"Lawyers are like nuclear bombs and PClones.  Nobody likes them,
but the other guy's got one, so I better get one too."