X-Message-Number: 1855 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 11:31 PST From: "SSP::SSP::MRGATE::\"A1::HINCKLEYS\""@ada3.ca.boeing.com Subject: CRYONICS Re:Oxygen environ From: NAME: Scott H Hinckley FUNC: B1-B Logistics TEL: 205 720 0734 <HINCKLEYS AT A1 AT SSP> To: ""@@MRGATE As it was taught at Virgil I. Grissom High School, the problem with the capsule was the magnesium used throughout. If you have ever seen (indirectly of course) what magnesium does when exposed to ignition temps in an oxygen CONTAINING environment (pure oxygen not require), you will realize what a flaw this was. Pure and near pure oxygen atmospheres can be useful for some purposes, though I don't see that it would be REQUIRED in this case. Scott Hinckley Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1855