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From: bonin@ut-emx.UUCP (Marc Bonin)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Ice Inspection Team
Summary: Cryogenics !
Message-ID: <12528@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 21:37:45 GMT
References: <24572@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <29801@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <29801@apple.Apple.COM>, stadler@Apple.COM (Andy Stadler) writes:
> In article <24572@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov
>  (Peter E. Yee) writes:

> >          The clock will hold
> >          and the ice inspection team and closeout crew are released to the
> >          pad.   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >	[...]
> >          4,000 ft. level and the temperature expected is 87 degrees.
> >							  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Why bother?
> 

> >               At about 5:34 a.m. EDT, loading of the external tank with
> >          its flight load of a half million gallons of liquid oxygen and
             liquid hydrogen propellants                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

  We've just finished filling the ET with LH2 at -423 deg F and LOX at
  -300 deg F, and the ET is sitting in warm,tropical air. 

  Get the picture now ??? 



                           Marc Bonin

                    University of Texas at Austin