Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 01/02/90 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.215903.20359@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <39637@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <25A6C543.5468@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 90 21:59:03 GMT

In article <25A6C543.5468@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald) writes:
>>       ...afternoon and attaching the strongbacks to open the payload bay
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
>What are strongbacks?

Reinforcing braces to strengthen the doors enough that they can be opened
without collapsing.  (They can be opened without such aids in free fall,
but not in Earth-surface gravity.)
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1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready|     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu