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Shuttle foam gets OK: space shuttle lands safely--foam redesign verified, says NASA.(US newslines)
Urethanes Technology, August, 2006 by White, Liz
WASHINGTON, DC -- Space Shuttle Discovery and its crew came back to earth safely on 17 July after a 13-day, five million-mile mission.
The programme managers were pleased with Discovery's performance. "The flight verified the safety of the biggest aerodynamic change to the external fuel tank in shuttle history. The protuberance air load (PAL) ramps were removed after a piece of foam came off this area during Discovery's flight last year," a NASA (the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration) statement said.
After the catastrophic break of the Columbia shuttle, with the loss of the seven crew, on re-entry on 1 Feb 2003, NASA diagnosed that the damage which led to the disintegration had been caused by a 750g chunk of rigid polyurethane foam from...
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