Microcracking problem on X-33 composite tank not yet solved
LEARNING CURVE: Materials engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Langley Research Center have started the search for a way to fix the composite-skin "microcracking" that allowed hydrogen and nitrogen into the core of the composite liquid hydrogen tank developed for the X-33 reusable...
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