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Villavic

07-03-2006, 02:24 PM

Foam crack in shuttle fuel tank!!!

I think space missions are getting harder each day, or bad luck.. Well after the last incidents, they MUST verify everything...

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/07/03

SortaSavageLike

07-03-2006, 02:33 PM

The foam itself isn't really part of the external fuel tank itself. It's a spray-on insulator named as CPR-488. So I don't think it's that big of a problem.