RE; actually they had flown that shuttle many years that way,the seals stayed rubbery until a certain point then got hard as a rock,when the booster, because of low temperture shrank the seal didnt,then leaked ,and only on the side of the main fuel tank where it eventually burned through,the material itself had been tested and was not approved at that temp, though it was only a few degrees lower that had ben launched earlier,but as an engine assembly,they did not yet have a test facility for cold as they do now.after all this is florida.under pressure to launch they just didnt think of that.
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