Shuttle Mishaps now under a Media Microscope

"Joe Delphi" wrote in message
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On 18 Mar 2006 03:07:42 -0800, "Matthew Ota"
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3. Roofers started a fire on the VAB while the SRBs were in it, but
the fire wasn't above them. Now, this one sounds scary, but it was
probably a dinky little fire.

Tar fires are not uncommon when roofing work is being performed. Whoever
authorized the roof work on the VAB should have been more aware of this.
Hopefully they have re-scheduled the roof work for a time when the SRBs
are
not in the VAB - like right after rollout.

The roof job is too big to shut down and re-start. And there are pretty
much always at least forward or aft segments in there, if not booster
stacks.