[austechwriter] Is training and documentation important?
- From: "Michael West" <mbwest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:14:46 +1000
Why is training and documentation important?
Well, it isn't rocket science.
Here's an excerpt from a NY Times article. Note
especially the last paragraph.
To read the whole article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/09/national/nationalspecial/09SHUT.html
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Michael West
Melbourne, Australia
Earlier Shuttle Flight Had Gas Enter Wing on Return
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The space shuttle Columbia was not the first to have superheated gas invade its
left
wing on re-entering Earth's atmosphere, according to documents released
yesterday by
NASA.
In 2000, the documents show, the shuttle Atlantis went into orbit with a
quarter-inch
breach in the wing's leading edge, allowing blowtorch-hot plasma into the wing
on
re-entry. But unlike the accident that destroyed the Columbia on Feb. 1 and
killed its
crew of seven, the incident resulted in only minor damage, leaving the wing's
inner
structure intact.
They say the gap in the leading edge of the Atlantis wing was created because
workers
installed insulation improperly during an overhaul in Palmdale, Calif., in 1997.
A NASA spokesman, Allard Beutel, said the only damage discovered by NASA after
the
flight was to the piece of insulation itself. "The only component that needed
to be
replaced was the butterfly gap filler seal that was installed improperly in the
first
place," Mr. Beutel said.
The entire shuttle fleet was inspected for similar problems, and workers
received new
training in installing the part "to make sure that it never happened again," Mr.
Beutel said.
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