The space shuttle is being reclassified as a research and development vehicle in light of the Columbia accident.
Credit: NASA
NASA will use wind tunnel and computational facilities at the Langley and Ames research centers to totally recharacterize the aerodynamics of the space shuttle before the program returns to flight, reclassified as more of a developmental vehicle, than the operational space transport NASA has been...
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