davec@mhuxu.UUCP (11/03/87)
Has anyone heard wether there has been much progress made on non-engine
shuttle problems during the long down-time? For instance the breaks
were known to have problems with stopping a loaded shuttle. Will the
next shuttle flight be with better breaks?
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--->Dave Caswell
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Bones?petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) (11/04/87)
Dave, there have been many non-engine Shuttle fixes and enhancements done since the Challenger accident. These fixes and hardware/sofware updates would have been done anyway, but since we're grounded, it gave us more time to complete the work. The brakes were fixed about 1 1/2 years ago and are ready to go. (I talked to Astronaut Jon Creighton (pilot), in person then and he assured me that the brakes were fixed along with other items). They are also updating the software and freeing up more memory space to 105K Bytes for avionics enhancements. Peter Jarvis...
pv04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Philip Verdieck) (11/04/87)
I hope it doesn't have better breaks, the less things that break on the shuttle the better..... :-)
jenks@uiucdcsp.UUCP (11/07/87)
When I was interviewing at JSC, they where hard at work fixing other
things than the SRB joints. One of my keepers-of-the-day said that
they had basically taken the Shuttle operations procedures apart
piece-by-piece, and they were now in the process of putting it all back
together. He said that they really needed the down-time they've had to
get everything working and more thoroughly debugged.
My impression was that with a launch every month (or every other), they
were too busy launching to plan for launches. There were several
places in mission planning (especially contingency plans) that have
really benefitted by the extended down-time.
I wish they'd taken the time to do it right the first time, but I'd love
to get in there and help them out. They need a programmer/engineer.
I need a job. I hope we can get together.
-- Ken Jenks, MS: Aero/Astro Engineering, BS: Computer Science, UIUC
Looking for job in space. Help, anyone?
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