NEW ORLEANS — The light, thin insulating foam at the center of speculation about the deadly breakup of space shuttle Columbia has gone through several modifications since early shuttles. Officials ...
Post-launch photography of the shuttle Endeavour's external tank shows multiple areas of bare metal where thin strips of foam insulation peeled away during the climb to space, the result of an ...
NASA gave the go-ahead for a Tuesday launch of shuttle Discovery, deciding that the loss of foam insulation off the ship’s fuel tank didn’t endanger its crew. Detailed inspections of the shuttle’s ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The engineers who built the massive external fuel tank that will power the shuttle Discovery into orbit this spring used sophisticated X-ray detectors developed by UF researchers ...
HOUSTON — NASA officials said Wednesday that they do not believe a chunk of foam insulation that struck Columbia during liftoff -- the most evident glitch in the mission -- caused damage that resulted ...
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