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From: rbk@hpctdke.HP.COM (Richard Katz)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Atlantis misses by a hair
Message-ID: <4260012@hpctdke.HP.COM>
Date: 3 May 89 13:48:56 GMT
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-/ hpctdke:sci.space.shuttle / snidely@inteloa.intel.com (David P. Schneider) /  3:01 pm  May  1, 1989 /
-At least one account I heard was that this was a very smooth  countdown  up
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-until  T  -  31 seconds, best since return-to-flight.  NASA select, though,
-had extra polling going on regarding a range safety computer that needed to
-brought  back  on  line.   The boot sequence must not have been as rough as
-some other issues, though, enven though it had the potential to  scrub  the
-launch.

I don't have the paper in front of me but it didn't seem that smooth.
Perhaps it was _relatively_ smooth - :-)

        - range safety computer problems, as mentioned above
        - overloaded receiver on Magellan
        - recirculating pump
        - blew a fuel line
        - atmospheric pressure sensor in cabin failed
        - two other problems which I can't remember off hand - if you
          are interested, let me know and I'll post or mail it.

By the way, did anybody hear yet where the "metal particles" found in
the recirculating pump came from?  Or where else they might have gone
and the effects?  Or what caused the fuel line to spring a leak? 

rich katz
hewlett packard
p o box 7050
colorado springs, co
80933-7050

email: rbk@hpctdlb.hp.com