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Two North Carolina Firms Make Space-Shuttle Components.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 2--A Charlotte-based company makes a key ingredient for the foam fuel-tank insulation that may become the focus of the investigation into Saturday's destruction of the space shuttle Columbia.
Barnhardt Manufacturing Co. makes the polyurethane-like components of the protective foam at a plant in Mount Airy, about 90 miles north of Charlotte. That foam may have fallen off the fuel tank during launch and damaged the shuttle's left wing, NASA officials said.
Goodrich Corp. of Charlotte also makes several components of the space shuttle, including carbon brakes, air temperature sensors and cryogenic fluid measurement and telemetry systems. Those products come from plants...
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