Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!ukma!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu-cs!mirror!frog!john From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Engine cracks Summary: Aviation Leak 9 January 1989 Keywords: Atlantis- media ignores it... Message-ID: <1351@X.UUCP> Date: 12 Jan 89 09:04:00 GMT References: <827@hadron.UUCP> Organization: Servants of the Great White Frog Lines: 22 In article <827@hadron.UUCP>, klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler) 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 had heard that these were supposedly cracks in a high speed (oxygen?) > turbine. Have not seen this weeks AW&ST and have heard nothing further > on the problem. From AW&ST, p 32, 9 Jan 89: "LAUNCH DATE for the next space shuttle mission was delayed to Feb. 23 by NASA last week due to minor processing delays at Kennedy Space Center. The orbiter Discovery is to be rolled to launch Pad 39B on Jan. 26, pending final review of both a crack in a main engine oxygen pump component and tile damage on the Atlantis launch Dec. 2." Maybe next week's will have an article about it. -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu Go be a `traves wasswort. - Doug Gwyn