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Title: Atlantis needs a bikini wax!!
Post by: SimonShuttle on 04/25/2005 12:34 pm
:o
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Post by: JamesSpaceFlight on 04/25/2005 12:37 pm
Reminds me of my ex  ;)
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Post by: WARPed on 04/25/2005 02:01 pm
Maybe obvious to some...but what are they all?  They look like wires.  Sensors?
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Post by: NASA_Twix_JSC on 04/25/2005 03:30 pm
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WARPed - 25/4/2005  9:01 AM

Maybe obvious to some...but what are they all?  They look like wires.  Sensors?

Yeah, the new TPS sensors for the leading edge of the wings.
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Post by: nacnud on 04/26/2005 01:54 pm
I thought that they were the shims inbetween the TPS tiles. The sensors would run inside the wing surely?
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Post by: Chris Bergin on 04/26/2005 02:39 pm
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nacnud - 26/4/2005  2:54 PM

I thought that they were the shims inbetween the TPS tiles. The sensors would run inside the wing surely?

Correct!
Title: RE: Atlantis needs a bikini wax!!
Post by: NASA_Twix_JSC on 04/27/2005 02:05 am
Hmmmm, going to have to ask an orbiter tech.
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Post by: dave1938 on 09/18/2014 04:26 am
:o

Those strings are non flight items having to do with the shims installed between the tile and the RCC wing leading edge tiles. They are a part of the shim installation process and are removed before flight.