In a major decision, NASA
In a major decision, NASA will remove the protuberance air load (PAL) ramps from all space shuttle external tanks to prevent a repeat of the debris-shedding that occurred on the STS-114 return-to-flight mission in July. New computational fluid dynamics analysis indicates the cable tray that the PAL...
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