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Old July 2nd 03, 01:39 AM
MSu1049321
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Default Could Columbia have been Saved?

Now wait a sec, I think I read somewhere that while gear deployment is done by
a manual switch, there IS a tie-in to the computer or to a radar altimeter such
that in the last critical seconds, a pyro will BLOW the doors open and the gear
down and locked, if the regular system fails. That could be modified, I'm
sure, some time in the next year.