Shuttle Pace Accelerates Toward Return to Flight
Credit: MD ROBOTICS
Measures to sharply curtail and document potentially fatal launch debris similar to that which doomed Columbia and her crew should allow the space shuttle to resume flights as early as May. But it could take up to two years before a fully certified thermal protection system and wing leading edge in...
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