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From: danno@microsoft.UUCP (Daniel A. Norton)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Discovery:  Go for throttle up!
Keywords: IT'S UP!!!
Message-ID: <111@microsoft	25144,1,1.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 20:18:43 GMT
References: <5680@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <2961@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: danno@microsoft.UUCP (Daniel A. Norton)
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
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In article <2961@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
> ...
>Also, the cooling fans in one of the partial-pressure suits blew their
>fuses, and they had to bring in some new 5 amp fuses from elsewhere.
>At first I wondered why they wouldn't have 5 amp fuses on board, but they
>probably do--those fuses are probably reserved for flight problems, however.
> ...
>
>Larry Wall
>lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov.

I didn't know that fuses generally just "blow."  I suppose that it's
possible that the fuse itself was faulty, but I wonder what the real
problem was.
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