Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!uwvax!umn-d-ub!nic.MR.NET!shamash!nis!ems!viper!dave From: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 09/19/88 (Forwarded) Message-ID: <1391@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> Date: 21 Sep 88 08:09:04 GMT References: <15140@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <4787@whuts.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Eagan, MN Lines: 20 In article <4787@whuts.UUCP> sw@whuts.UUCP (WARMINK) writes: >In article <15140@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes: >> this week, ordnance devices on the vehicle will be tested for >> flight. > >How does on test an ordnance device *before* the flight???? >Just a little puzzled about what is meant... How about checking the igniters for electrical conductivity? Of course you don't want to check them too hard... :-) -- If you can't convince | David Messer - (dave@Lynx.MN.Org) them, confuse them. | Lynx Data Systems -- Harry S Truman | | amdahl --!bungia!viper!dave | hpda / Copyright 1988 David Messer -- All Rights Reserved This work may be freely copied. Any restrictions on redistribution of this work are prohibited.