SeeSat-L Feb-00 : Endeavour water dump ?

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 21:06:15 PST

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    Daniel Deak (dan.deak@sympatico.ca) wrote:

] Tonight (Feb. 15, local) there was a beautiful Shuttle pass .... 
] what surprised me was that a tail of something was coming out of
] the Shuttle northward, about 50 to 60 degrees upward. It was about 
] a half degree in length.  ....
]
] Could it be a water dump ???

Apparently so!  The following is from a news story on Yahoo/Reuters:

] Mission managers also decided they could save fuel by simply flushing 
] waste water into space several times a day rather than vaporizing it.

 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000215/ts/space_shuttle_16.html

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA

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