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Title: STS-122: Reviewing Atlantis' IFAs - Parachute failure tops list
Post by: Chris Bergin on 02/24/2008 09:03 pm

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5365 - rounded up as much as viable from L2's STS-122 post flight IFA review presentations.

Title: RE: STS-122: Reviewing Atlantis' IFAs - Parachute failure tops list
Post by: STSFan10 on 02/24/2008 10:54 pm

That was a really interesting read!

I'm surprised more things don't fall off with all that vibration of SSME igntion.

Title: Re: STS-122: Reviewing Atlantis' IFAs - Parachute failure tops list
Post by: Launch Fan on 02/25/2008 01:41 pm

Read the presentations on L2, all very interesting and understandable, but appreciate the write up!

Title: RE: STS-122: Reviewing Atlantis' IFAs - Parachute failure tops list
Post by: ShuttleDiscovery on 02/25/2008 04:56 pm

Thanks Chris. Apart from the parachute - one excellent, clean flight!

Title: RE: STS-122: Reviewing Atlantis' IFAs - Parachute failure tops list
Post by: nsf-rt on 02/25/2008 10:25 pm

On the parachutes I recently read:

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Always remember the old adage, "Better is the  enemy of good," so you've got to be careful.  You remember they made an improvement in the pyro [pyrotechnics] system on STS-4 that deployed the chutes for the solid rocket motors.  Something happened and they fell, and both our solid rocket motors went in the ocean and we never got them back.  No chutes.  I can't remember whether the chutes didn't deploy, or they deployed and immediately released, or something, but, anyhow, I know we lost the solid rocket  motors.

5 June 2001  28  Johnson Space Center Oral History Project  Henry W. “Hank” Hartsfield, Jr. (http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/HartsfieldHW/HartsfieldHW_6-15-01.pdf)