Re: OT: We got it up!
- From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:52:53 -0700
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:04:06 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:44:45 -0700, "Richard Henry" <rphenry@xxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>"Keith Williams" <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>news:MPG.1d5430d426ae8413989b48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> In article <pan.2005.07.29.15.45.25.162707@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> eatmyshorts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>>> > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:07:36 +1000, Clifford Heath wrote:
>[snip]
>>> > 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?
>>>
>>> You mean the foam made using CFCs? Can't do that. Ozone hole, ya'
>>> know!
>>
>>NASA has an exemption.
>>
>
>I don't know if they have an exemption or not, but tile failure was
>not a major problem until environmentalists forced the discontinuation
>of fluorocarbon(freon)-based foaming agents. NASA used hydrazine
>instead, and the tile failures began.
>
>
> ...Jim Thompson
And the putty used on the SRB segment seals, the stuff that worked,
included asbestos.
John
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