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LEOSTMA (phone-Houston)

• got SRB test data (from a Thiokol source)... no firings <45°F

• check O-ring QC: O-rings are spliced together - some as much as 4-5 splices. Techs can send down a scan - not req'd & measure it. Micrometer readings are req'd, but only 4 around circumference - not necessarily at seams

• hard start on SSME (hardest yet) may have caused your twang (.05 deg/sec.... 5X previous).... "wind" is proposed cause

5 working groups:
  SRB (report complete)          ET (nearly)
  SRM                            INTEGRATION
  SSME (report complete)          (total timeline)