NASA IG faults inspections of shuttle bolt catchers
All of the space shuttle's bolt catchers produced from 1995 to 1998, including those that flew on Columbia's last mission, should have been rejected by government inspectors, according to a recent report by NASA's inspector general (IG). Each of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters (SRBs) are...
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