Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!dietz From: dietz@awamore.cs.cornell.edu (Paul F. Dietz) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: other causes of the Challenger disaster? Message-ID: <17871@cornell.UUCP> Date: 31 May 88 15:13:58 GMT References: <17870@cornell.UUCP> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Reply-To: dietz@awamore (Paul F. Dietz) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY Lines: 10 The point to ponder is that we really don't know why the joint failed. Did the cold have something to do with it? Joints have suffered damage in warm weather. Perhaps increasing the leak test pressure to 200 psi? Or maybe the stretching of used booster segments? Or something else that hasn't been discovered? Since we don't know, we can't be confident the problem has been fixed. Paul F. Dietz dietz@gvax.cs.cornell.edu