[Erin Rapacki]

Everybody's gonna hate me for this...

This summer I worked at Hamilton Sundstrand with the EMU guys
(the Space Suit, Hamilton designed and fabricated it)

I've had this one huge task all summer. What it is, is to look into past history and double check on all the Engineering Changes made since the program started (change in design), and make sure all of them had some kind of testing done, some convincing rationale, or deem the EC non life-threatening.

This task was a necessity because of what happened on Columbia. Apparently having the tile hit the wing was a circumstance when somebody did some physics and calculus and figured that it wouldn't do much damage. Things like this happens... but it can't hurt to double check. We do our best to prevent anything from going wrong.

"Do it right the FIRST time."



p.s. I was a life guard two summers ago, uck!