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To: Billthedrill

According to the local media report in S. Korea, the separation between second and third stage rocket failed. The bolts connecting the two did not blow up to allow the separation as designed.


6 posted on 04/07/2009 7:48:37 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (from "Irrational Exuberance" to "Mark to Zero": from '96 to '09)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Thank you VERY much for that! I have a beer bet with a buddy, another old ex-Navy missileer. :-)

It sounds easy, but it isn't. It's just one of those little two-bit things that has to be right every time or the whole thing comes tumbling down.

8 posted on 04/07/2009 7:55:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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