From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: SRB Recovery Plans
Article-I.D.: alice.840
Posted: Sat Aug  7 15:52:51 1982
Received: Sun Aug  8 00:32:39 1982


NASA officials have decided to go ahead and recover parts of
the two SRB's that sank after the launch of STS-4.  Underwater
cameras showed that the boosters had broken up on impact.  One
of the pieces is a 40-foot long section that contains a flight
recorder.  The other booster was more broken up, the biggest
piece being a 6-by-8 foot section containing a stiffener ring
and at least two parachutes.  NASA says that they do not expect
any of the parts to be reusable, but they hope they will shed
some more light on why the SRB's sank after hitting the ocean.