Re: OT: We got it up!

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:07:36 +1000, Clifford Heath wrote:

> Rich Grise wrote:
>> The US is a spacefaring nation once again!
>
> Weell, there's a last time for everything...
> Pity they've grounded the fleet indefinitely.


This makes me wonder - it's only the last few missions that
have had problems with EFT insulation - why don't they go back
to the original design? Y'know, the one on the first missions,
that _didn't_ fall apart? I still remember the first launch,
and the EFT was white. I remember the launch when the EFT was
that dirty orangish color, and the news reports said that they
didn't paint it, in hopes of saving a couple hundred pounds.

Howcome nobody thought of using the original design, that
didn't fall apart?

Thanks,
Rich

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