GOOD-BYE, COLUMBIA
In 1979 I became a new hire at Grumman Aerospace in Bethpage, N.Y., as a weights and mass properties associate engineer. My first project was the wing subcontract for the space shuttle program. Shuttle wings were built in a vertical position, leading edges up, trailing edges down. Each is 30 ft...
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