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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from Sept 12 AW&ST
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Date: 22 Nov 88 20:36:29 GMT
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In article <1091@esunix.UUCP> bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:
|Remember the name of the comany that won the SRM contract was THIOKOL.

Seems to me that the Thiokol proposal was a design which had the joint
rotation problem. In other words, the technical problem was there from
the beginning. Didn't Thiokol have enough experience to know this
wouldn't work? Or were they just trying to make something cheap enough
to win the bid? 


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Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com
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