Aug 13 2007
The Space Shuttle Needs A Band-aid
NASA deciding whether Endeavour crew needs to repair gouge:
…a nine-centimetre-long gouge the shuttle suffered during its launch last week penetrates all the way through thermal tiles on its belly.
Engineers are trying to determine whether the area can withstand the searing heat of atmospheric re-entry at the end of the flight.
Scary. I can imagine the [...]
