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NASA, Pratt review shuttle pump rules.
- Source :
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Aviation Week & Space Technology . 8/14/1995, Vol. 143 Issue 7, p27. 2/3p. - Publication Year :
- 1995
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Abstract
- Reports on Marshall Space Flight Center engineers' scouring of inspection requirements for Pratt & Whitney Corp.'s space shuttle main engine pumps. Call for review following the discovery in one pump of a metal seal bent into the unit's hot gas stream; Concern about impact damage to the heat exchanger; Pumps as critical components of effort to improve the reliability and safety of the space shuttle's main engines.
- Subjects :
- *PROPULSION of space shuttles
*SPACE flight
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00052175
- Volume :
- 143
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Aviation Week & Space Technology
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 9509264832