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Space Shuttle's Left Wing May Be Damaged
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| 20070612
| NBC News space correspondent Jay Barbree
Posted on 06/12/2007 4:48:53 PM PDT by XBob
Space Shuttle's Left Wing May Be Damaged Meteorite, Space Junk May Have Struck Panels
POSTED: 5:13 pm EDT June 12, 2007 UPDATED: 7:00 pm EDT June 12, 2007 Email This Story | Print This Story Sign Up for Breaking News Alerts WASHINGTON -- A meteorite or space junk may have struck Space Shuttle Atlantis' left wing, according to NBC News space correspondent Jay Barbree.
NASA recorded a hit on reinforced carbon panels 7 and 8 on the left wing. The panels keep heat from re-entry from burning the spacecraft.
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This is the same area where foam damaged Columbia's left wing and caused it to break up, killing its crew on Feb. 1, 2003.
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KEYWORDS: damaged; leftwing; nasa; shuttle; shuttleatlantis
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Not Again, PLEEEEEEASE !!!!
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:48:56 PM PDT
by
XBob
To: XBob
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:50:26 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: XBob
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:50:32 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Vote Hillary in '08 - let's restore America's silverware to the White House.)
To: XBob
no report of how big a hit yet? any pics released yet?
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:50:32 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
To: XBob
Pray for these astronauts...
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:51:38 PM PDT
by
Baladas
To: KevinDavis
PING DING A PING PING !!!!!
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:51:43 PM PDT
by
XBob
(Jail the employers of the INVADERS !!)
To: XBob
Hope they can fix it. They can.
To: XBob
Hunh. I listened to NASA TV at work today and mission control only mentioned an EVA to batten down the folded bit of thermal blanket on one of the OMUs.
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:52:53 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: XBob
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:53:02 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
("Lord, give me chastity and temperance, but not now." - St. Augustine)
To: XBob
Space the final frontier.
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:53:02 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Reagan never called me a "bigot".)
To: XBob
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:53:33 PM PDT
by
Recovering Hermit
(There's another old saying Senator..."Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.")
To: XBob
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:53:40 PM PDT
by
fatima
(Remember our Troops with a little prayer.)
To: XBob
A senior NASA official told Barbree that they do not believe the strike did any damage, but will check the area to make sure. Not Again, PLEEEEEEASE !!!!
To: XBob
Oh no. Please God, let them be safe.
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:55:25 PM PDT
by
American Quilter
(You can't negotiate with people who are dedicated to your destruction.)
To: XBob
Frack..
I’m glad they discovered it now.. Prayers for them in fixing and returning.
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:55:29 PM PDT
by
mnehring
(Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit)
To: XBob
We need to stop putting people up there.
It’s expensive, worthless and most of all, dangerous.
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:56:18 PM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: XBob
May be a piece of Chinese space crap from their recent
“experiment”.
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:57:29 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: XBob
Both panels 7 AND 8! Does this mean something larger hit, or two smaller pieces, or just one impact which was recorded by sensors on both panels?
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:58:49 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: beethovenfan
May be a piece of Chinese space crap from their recent “experiment”. Hmmm. Probably can't prove it, but would not surprise me.
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:59:55 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(The Democrat Party: radical Islam's last hope)
To: XBob
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