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Conference 7.286::space

Title:Space Exploration
Notice:Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6
Moderator:PRAGMA::GRIFFIN
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

482.0. "Further Delays in Shuttle Program?" by FDCV01::BEST (Think Snow) Wed Nov 02 1988 16:24

    
    	I heard on the news this morning that a plant that makes a type
    of rayon thread used in the manufacture of the nose cone of the
    SRB's is discontinuing production or closing.  There are no other
    suppliers for this component and the report said that it could delay
    the shuttle program by as much as two years.  Let's hope it gets
    started up again before it's completely dismantled.
    
    						-Jerry
    
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482.1grand reopening...SHAOLN::DENSMORELegion of Decency, RetiredFri Nov 11 1988 07:436
    I saw a short item in the Boston Globe yesterday that indicated
    that the plant in question was being restarted.  Apparently the
    government (military and NASA) made some kind of committment that
    made them happy.
    
    						Mike
482.2Other Sole suppliers disappearingZEKE::KOZIKOWSKIChallenge LifeSun Nov 13 1988 13:025
    I've heard reports of other sole suppliers of raw materials
    for the Shuttle program are going out of business.  Apparently
    NASA has committed to studying this problem.
    
    Derek