Jun 23 1989
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
A Space Shuttle main engine shut down prematurely and suffered severe damage during a full-duration test firing at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. NASA engineers said that a high speed liquid oxygen pump "came apart" during the test firing, causing a fire and structural damage to Rocketdyne engine No. 0212. This was the first serious malfunction of a main engine since 1985. (MSFC Release 89-125, Jun 26/89; UPI, Jun 23/89; NY Times, Jun 28/89; W Times, Jun 28/89)
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