Candidates for the 2008 Operations Laurels
John Shannon, mission management team chairman on STS-118, and NASA engineers evaluated the threat from a gouge in the shuttle Endeavour’s thermal protection system in August 2007, and made the real-time call that it probably would be riskier to attempt untried repair techniques than to land without...
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