Safety Margins Increased for Shuttle Orbiter
The space shuttle is flying for the first time with a series of upgrades beyond those made to the external propellant tank. The changes include: *Improved tile gap-fillers. During the STS-114 mission last summer two protruding gap-fillers between orbiter belly tiles forced modification of an...
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