JOSH@YKTVMH.BITNET ("Josh Knight") (02/03/86)
Article in today's NY Times said that a new orbiter would cost $2 billion and take a year to complete. Mentioned "spare parts". This was a continuation of a page 1 article to page A12. All the noise about one of the SRB's being the cause seems to rest on new pictures and a 4% thrust drop 13.5 seconds before the explosion. There is a lot of written about what the abort possibilities would have been had the orbiter been separated from the SRB's and main tank before the explosion. Josh Knight IBM T.J. Watson Research Center josh@yktvmh.BITNET, josh.yktvmh@ibm-sj.arpa