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Article #924An expensive slip!
From: Edwin Wiles
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1989 16:36
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1989 16:36
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Reprinted without permission from "Air & Space", December 1989/January 1990, Calendar, Anniversaries, page 19: 1988 December 1 A technician readying a Boeing rocket for launch aboard the space shuttle slips on the hem of his lab coat and bangs into the rocket's first stage, leaving a four-inch crack in the exhaust nozzle. The entire first stage had to be replaced at a cost of $6 million. Press coverage of the mishap omitted the tecnician's name, sparing him public humiliation. OOPS! :-) "Who?... Me?... WHAT opinions?!?" | Edwin Wiles Schedule: (n.) An ever changing nightmare. | NetExpress Comm., Inc. ..!uunet!netxcom!ewiles (I'm certain!) | 1953 Gallows Rd. Suite 300 OR ewiles@iad-nxe.global-mis.DHL.COM (I think!) | Vienna, VA 22182
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde!uunet!pyrdc!netxcom!netxdev!ewiles From: ewiles@netxdev.DHL.COM (Edwin Wiles) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: An expensive slip! Message-ID: <2036@netxcom.DHL.COM> Date: 5 Dec 89 16:36:15 GMT Sender: news@netxcom.DHL.COM Lines: 17