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Aresearch.56 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!research!sjb Tue Sep 22 21:34:43 1981 fuel spill A delay in the launch of the shuttle may be up to 1 or 2 weeks, as technicians must reglue some 300 tiles. When nitrogen tetroxide fuel was spilled on the ship, 52 tiles fell off as the acid ate away at the super-glue that binds them, and some 250 others were loosened. NASA officials hope that the orbiter will not have to be taken off the pad and rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it would be disconnected from the SRB's and external tank, in order to re-apply the tiles. No specific delay time was announced.

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