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With the shuttle being rollbacked, can they run tests on it to checkfor lightning damage?



 
 
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Old August 29th 06, 02:38 AM posted to sci.space.shuttle
robert casey
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Default With the shuttle being rollbacked, can they run tests on it to checkfor lightning damage?

I imagine that NASA will use the time the shuttle is safely inside out
of the weather to do exhaustive testing to be sure nothing got fried in
that big lightning strike the other day. Or to figure where that burnt
smell the pad rats smelled came from (paint burnt off the lightning rod?
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Old August 29th 06, 09:51 AM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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Default With the shuttle being rollbacked, can they run tests on it to check for lightning damage?

You get that smell when things are fried by lightening wherever it strikes.
I doubt they keep a mass spectrometer handy to test the air and identify
what it was. A wag on another group suggested it was fried bird droppings.
Cant think why...:-)

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I imagine that NASA will use the time the shuttle is safely inside out of
the weather to do exhaustive testing to be sure nothing got fried in that
big lightning strike the other day. Or to figure where that burnt smell
the pad rats smelled came from (paint burnt off the lightning rod?



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Old August 29th 06, 01:37 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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if they find serious damage eduardo may have saved some
lives.............

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eduardo...ernesto...whatever...
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if they find serious damage eduardo may have saved some
lives.............


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Old August 29th 06, 05:37 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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if they find serious damage eduardo may have saved some
lives.............


Aye. And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon.

 




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