Thursday, July 28, 2005

NASA to Ground Shuttles Again

From WaPo, bad news regarding the shuttle Discovery launch. It turns out that pieces of foam insulation fell away from the external fuel tank. This unfortunate occurence caused NASA to ground future flights.

The silver lining is that this phenomenon is probably not new, and that goes to the engineering tolerance of the shuttle design. Also, this discovery will only allow NASA scientists to improve upon the design.

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