[rescue] Re: [geeks] Crap! Not again...

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Shawn Wallbridge <shawn at synack-hosting.com> wrote:
> They have had damaged tiles in the past and made it home safely. A
> few years ago they found that some of the insulation on the fuel
> tank was 'popcorning' and damaging the underside of the shuttle
> during launch. That shuttle had quite a few damaged tiles and it
> still made it home. I also remember hearing about one shuttle that
> came home with half a dozen tiles missing and they didn't know until
> they did their post flight inspection.

That was the "joke" with the first few flights, wasn't it?

OH, I miss Richard Feynmann - he could have solved this puzzle in no
time (he figured out the O-Ring problem while playing with an O-Ring
and some ice water during the hearings when the last shuttle went down)...

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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