1. Another is a missing or improperly installed vent line that is supposed to connect each fixture to the main vent stack. 2. Another possibility under investigation is that a fire traveled into the center tank from a vent line that runs all the way down both wings. 3. Efforts to start the mission Thursday were scrubbed when a cloud of highly flammable hydrogen fuel vapors leaked from a vent line. 4. Efforts to repair the leaking vent line by patching what engineers identified as a crack in an old weld seam were under way late Thursday. 5. Flames were then blasted through a vent line into the center tanks, causing the explosion, according to this theory. 6. Flames were then blasted through a vent line into the center tanks, causing the explosion. 7. He monitors his temperature gauges, adjusting the heat by alternate use of his burners and a cooling vent line. 8. Officials said the leak occurred in a vent line outside the shuttle, at the base of the launch platform. 9. The launch platform on which the vent line is located dates back to the Apollo program. |