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NASA Studies Three Ways to Improve Space Shuttle's Fuel Tanks.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003
By Michael Cabbage, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 7--CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--NASA is studying three options for a major redesign of an area on the space shuttle's external fuel tank where debris broke loose and struck Columbia during launch.
March 26 briefing documents from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration obtained by the Orlando Sentinel detail proposed changes to a pair of foam insulation ramps near the tank's midsection. The suitcase-sized ramps cover metal fittings in the so-called bipod area, where a pair of struts mate the orbiter to the 15-story tank.
Two of the options would shrink the foam ramps and eliminate some related hardware. Another would replace the ramp entirely with...
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