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From: lusgr@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu (STEVE ROSEMAN)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 05/01/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <3875@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu>
Date: 3 May 89 10:47:39 GMT
References: <24772@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
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In article <24772@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
>                    KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT - Monday, May 1, 1989
> 
>                       STS-28 - COLUMBIA - (0V 102) - OPF BAY 1
> 
>...
>           and thermal protection system activities are continuing with over
>           300 tile cavities remaining.
> 

Simple (?) question.  What is a 'tile cavity'.  Is that 300 missing
tiles (I hope not), 300 tiles with damage that need repair, 300 holes
in some lesser number of tiles, etc.?   Assuming that they are holes, is
repair done by 'spackling' the holes with some appropriate compound?  
(Buy Red Devil, available at your neighborhood hardware store.)

Thanks,

Steve Roseman
Lehigh University Computing Center
LUSGR@VAX1.CC.Lehigh.EDU