Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cbs
From: cbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Chris Syed)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 12/21/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.193307.2096@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <38677@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 89 19:33:07 GMT

In article <38677@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
>          Offloading of the propellant dewars on the pad's structure is
>          planned today.    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  I've been embarassed to ask for some time, but wot, pray tell, are
  propellant dewars, or any dewars for that matter? I remember an
  Irish netter suggested running the shuttle on Guinness, which would
  surely be more cost-effective than Dewars' scotch!  ;-)
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