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Workers at Lockheed Martin Tank Plant Fear Link to Shuttle Breakup.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Bob Mahlburg, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 7--NEW ORLEANS--At the plant that has built fuel tanks for every space-shuttle mission, NASA's revelation that tank insulation may have nothing to do with the Columbia disaster is a bitter reminder of what happened after the Challenger explosion in 1986.
Then, investigators initially scrutinized the shuttle's giant external tank as a possible cause of the disaster, only to shift their focus later.
Longtime workers say it's happening again.
"We were blamed for the first three months," said Peter Hilkeldey, a former manager at Lockheed Martin's Michoud Assembly Facility.
Investigators eventually concluded that a half-inch crack in a...
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