NASA Will Continue Foam-Impact Tests
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NASA plans several more months of impact tests on reinforced-carbon-carbon space shuttle leading edges, using the same Texas test rig that the Columbia Accident Investigation Board used to blow a 16-in. hole in an RCC leading-edge panel last week. The CAIB test demonstrated once and for all that...
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