From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Robot to Get SRB Recorders
Article-I.D.: alice.784
Posted: Tue Jul 13 07:46:17 1982
Received: Wed Jul 14 01:45:49 1982

A robot called SCARAB, for Submersible Craft Assisting Repair
and Burial will be sent out from Baltimore today to the UTC
Freedom off the coast of Cape Canaveral to help in the recovery
of the recorder aboard one of the Columbia's sunken SRB's.  It
will arrive Thursday or Friday.  From there, it will be sent
down and commanded from the ship to pick up the recorder, like
a plane's black box, and bring it back.  NASA hopes the recorder
will help determine the exact cause od the sinking of the boosters.