vac@sam.cs.cmu.edu (Vincent Cate) (06/30/90)
I was just watching NASA sellect and the tests this morning on Atlantis have shown a leak so it will not be flying soon. It seems they do not have spare "umbilicals" to connect shuttles to tanks. They took Endevour's for Columbia. I think they said it would take over a year to make another one. Things look very bad. -- Vince
stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) (07/06/90)
In article <9772@pt.cs.cmu.edu> vac@sam.cs.cmu.edu (Vincent Cate) writes: >I was just watching NASA sellect and the tests this morning on >Atlantis have shown a leak so it will not be flying soon. >It seems they do not have spare "umbilicals" to connect >shuttles to tanks. They took Endevour's for Columbia. >I think they said it would take over a year to make another >one. Things look very bad. > > -- Vince Over a year??? Do they have some Joe Schmoe working on building it with hand tools or something? Jeez. You can accomplish one hell of a lot in a year, and making an umbilical to connect the shuttle to the tank doesn't seem like it could possibly take that long. -- Michael V. Pelletier | "We live our lives with our hands on the CAEN UseNet News Administrator | rear-view mirror, striving to get a better Systems Group Programmer | view of the road behind us. Imagine what's | possible if we look ahead and steer..."
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (07/07/90)
I assume that while I was away someone noted that while there is a
leak, it's not like Columbia's at all. They are both hydrogen leaks, but
because they are not the same there is reason to conclude that there is
not a generic problem.
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