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From: dsmith@hplabsb.HP.COM (David Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from Sept 12 AW&ST
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Date: 30 Nov 88 19:56:49 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <1110@esunix.UUCP> bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:
>Of course whoever (CSD?) builds the Titan-3 families solid rocket motors

I think it is United Technologies.  Is CSD the Chemical Systems Division
of UTC?

At any rate, there is an argument/discussion going on about the notion
of barring Thiokol (or at least Morton) from future work.  I'd like to
know how that fits in with other companies' failures.  What penalties
were imposed on UTC/CSD for the Titan 34D explosion?  What happened to
Beech as a result of Apollo 13?  Did Rockwell (still North American at
the time?) suffer from Apollo 204?  The Titan and Apollo 13 failures
may not have been due to fundamental design faults, but Apollo 204 was.
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			David Smith
			HP Labs
			dsmith@hplabs.hp.com