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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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