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   =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Vorbr=FCggen?= to All   
   Re: SpaceShipOne and reentry heat   
   16 Jul 04 10:50:48   
   
   From: jvorbrueggen-not@mediasec.de   
      
   > And in the end, it *won't* *save* *you*. Post-Columbia RCC tests have shown   
   > that even cracks or quarter-inch pits that don't completely penetrate the   
   > RCC can be fatal.   
      
   Is there a press release or somesuch available somewhere that summarizes   
   these experiments?   
      
   If your conclusion above is correct, then it seems to me that previous   
   flights have been lucky in that, for instance, those paint flecks made   
   their pits in the windows and not some piece of RCC.   
      
   	Jan   
      
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