Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!mcnc!ecsvax!ruslan From: ruslan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Engine cracks Summary: NPR too... Keywords: Atlantis- media ignores it... Message-ID: <6197@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 10 Jan 89 13:46:03 GMT References: <582@flatline.UUCP> <1613@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 26 In article <1613@virginia.acc.virginia.edu>, pcp2g@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Philip C. Plait) writes: > >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. > [...] > I haven't heard another thing about it! None of the papers said > anything about it, neither did the news on television that night. > 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? > I heard (again, just the last few seconds) on National Public Radio (most likely All Things Considered, the evening broad- cast.) It did sound serious enough to warrant a followup (cracks... which could cause delays in the program...) but nothing since. Could somebody with an aerospace-type weekly magazine keep us posted? (Somebody suggested Wash. Post archives, but that seems like a massive task. Maybe if nothing further comes out for another week I'll attempt it ;^)) Robin LaPasha -- Robin LaPasha |"When there is no cat, ruslan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu |the mice dance the horo" - Bulgarian proverb