[XBob]

7. “Hope they can fix it. They can.”

SO SORRY, IIRC panels 7 and 8 cannot be fixed, period, anwhere, they must be replaced, IRRC.

We posted that info here on FR on our looooong thread on the Colombia disaster in FEB 2003.

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NASA Kennedy Space Center—Space Shuttle Orbiter Systems .... Instruct students to label and shade in the Shuttle tile positions. ...
http://media.nasaexplores.com/lessons/04-030/9-12_1.pdf

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Tile damage from foam impact was famil-. iar to 1990s-era shuttle crews; we saw the .... struction hangar at Kennedy Space Center on March 3, 2003.
http://www.aiaa.org/aerospace/images/articleimages/pdf/AA_Oct05_VFH.pdf

[Jet Jaguar]

The ground crews can be pretty crafty. Let’s hope they can pull a “McGyver” on this and get a fix.