Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!sw
From: sw@whuts.UUCP (WARMINK)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 09/19/88 (Forwarded)
Summary: Hmmmm....
Message-ID: <4787@whuts.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 88 20:53:30 GMT
References: <15140@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 15

In article <15140@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
>             KSC SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING REPORT FOR - Mon. Sept. 19, 1988
>                      STS-26  -  DISCOVERY (OV 103)  -  PAD 39-B
>           and distribution system will be purged on Wednesday and later
>           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...

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