Shuttle Managers Order Reinforcement For Discovery Tank
HOUSTON — NASA shuttle managers called for the installation of a “radius block” on the stringer section of Discovery’s external tank (ET) during a Jan. 3 meeting, a modification that will strengthen areas that experience primary launch forces and are susceptible to cracks like those that formed...
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