From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!rabbit!jj
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Re: New Shuttle Abort Site - (nf)
Article-I.D.: rabbit.575
Posted: Tue Jun 29 11:03:03 1982
Received: Wed Jun 30 01:21:55 1982
References: pur-ee.377 alice.737

	Out of curiousity, what happens when the shuttle starts to land
with wet felt, the water boils, and the tiles all come off?   Could it
be that this is the reason for making sure that the tiles are dry?
	Considering the heat that is generated during re-entry, it
seems to me that any moisture left in the tiles would boil, very rapidly
in fact, and and blow the tiles off the ship.  I don't like the sound of that.