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| Title: | Space Exploration |
| Notice: | Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6 |
| Moderator: | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN |
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| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 974 |
| Total number of notes: | 18843 |
61.0. "Shuttle COLUMBIA Overhaul" by PYRITE::WEAVER () Mon Jul 15 1985 12:07
Subject: Columbia Back in Service
Posted: Fri Jul 12 05:20:03 1985
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
The nation's first spaceworthy shuttle, Columbia, was towed
from its Rockwell plant yesterday, an 18 month overhaul
completed. The ship is scheduled to return to KSC on Sunday.
During the overhaul, the Columbia's wings and body were
strengthened, new engine's were installed, ejection seats
removed, and HUD's implaced, among other things. The
Columbia is now capable of flying 100 missions without
overhaul, except for main engine work. The Challenger is
next scheduled for overhaul, in order to bring it up to
date with Discovery, Atlantis, and now the Columbia.
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| 61.1 | | ISHTAR::RBAUER | | Thu Aug 01 1985 11:28 | 7 |
| Did they replace Challenger's thousands of tiles with large blankets,
or did they just refit it with the original style tiles? I believe the
Atlantis has the silica blankets, I'm not sure about Discovery.
I heard that many of the 35 thousand tiles were damaged on the plane
ride to KSC. Does anybody have any info on this?
Ron
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