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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 05/01/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <14299@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 06:01:43 GMT
References: <24772@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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In article <24772@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Peter E. Yee passes along:
>                   KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT - Monday, May 1, 1989
>
>                        STS-30 - ATLANTIS (OV 104) - PAD 39-B
>[...]
>          Metal particles found inside the old pump could have been the
>          cause for the short. The pump circulates liquid hydrogen to the
>          main engine number one and conditions it prior to start.

OK, here's the $64k question (god how cheap that sounds compared to
what one of these episodes REALLY costs): how do you get a recirculation
pump full of metal particles into a shuttle orbiter ready to launch on
the pad?  Why does no one find out about it until the bird refuses to fly?
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