Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!mcnc!uvaarpa!virginia!bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU!pcp2g From: pcp2g@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Philip C. Plait) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Engine cracks Keywords: Atlantis- media ignores it... Message-ID: <1613@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 10 Jan 89 05:06:10 GMT References: <582@flatline.UUCP> Sender: acc@virginia.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: pcp2g@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Philip C. Plait) Organization: Academic Computing Center, University of Va. Lines: 19 >In article , armhold@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) writes: While driving to work yesterday morning, I heard on the radio that cracks were found in the main engines of the Atlantis shuttle. Supposedly they were serious enough to possibly cause the shuttle to explode during its last mission. After this brief report on the radio, I haven't heard another thing about it! None of the papers said anything about it, neither did the news on television that night. Could someone please elaborate on what happened and possibly offer a reason as to why the media has ignored it? I also heard about this. I caught the last three seconds or so of a news broadcast and heard Tom Brokaw (yes, it was on NATIONAL news) saying something about possible delays of flights. What gives? * Phil Plait PCP2G@bessel.acc.virginia.EDU * UVa Dept. of Astronomy Grad student (at large) * * "...but would you give a drowning man a glass of sand?"