Re: Space Shuttle Parachute Washing Machine?
- From: "Neil Gerace" <geracen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:09:44 +0800
"Kevin Willoughby" <KevinWilloughby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1decf2e3c2bd6ab1989dc1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My furnace didn't start this morning. So I called a tech to fix it. We
> chatted a bit and he told me he once contracted to Martin at KSC. He was
> called in to fix the boiler for a huge, building-filling, washing
> machine that did nothing but wash the parachute from the space shuttle.
> That surprised me. I never bothered to consider that they'd have to wash
> it -- does it really get dirty and is that really an issue?
They would undoubtedly get covered in seawater when the SRBs splash down.
That has to be washed off.
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