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Old December 10th 05, 09:54 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:51:23 GMT, in a place far, far away,
(Derek Lyons) made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

"Space Cadet" wrote:

Some might be wondering why we were so dumb as to run out of LOX on a
remote tropical island on the last launch attempt.
Believe me, we tried hard to avoid it, but several issues conspired to
create the problem:
* The additional month of Merlin testing resulted in
additional LOX boil-off on island.


Huh? What additional testing was needed?


FRFs integrated in the vehicle?