To: RadioAstronomer
spaceflightnow.com
1830 GMT (2:30 p.m. EDT)
The Atlantis astronauts inspected the shuttle's wing leading edge panels and nose cap today as part of a now-standard post-Columbia checkout and while additional observations and analysis will take several more days to complete, no obvious signs of damage were seen.
The launch shed some materials but late enough in the flight that they presented little relative velocity and did negligible damage.
343 posted on
09/10/2006 12:07:03 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: RightWhale
344 posted on
09/10/2006 12:09:06 PM PDT by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
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