Re: shuttle breaks up on re-entry

From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 12:49:18 MST


Damien Broderick <thespike@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Officials are warning anyone who finds fragments to stay well clear, due to
> `lethal toxic fumes' from unburned fuel. Well, hmm, that sounds implausible.
> Is this just an attempt to prevent looting/souveniring of the flight
> recorder etc?

Probably, but note that the space shuttle's attitude jets burn
monomethyl hydrazine with nitrogen tetroxide, which are rather
noxious.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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