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24 years, and NOW foam is falling off?!?
Posted by Nick Chase on August 11, 2005 in Rants
OK, somebody explain this to me. We’ve been launching space shuttles since Columbia first went up in April 1981. For 22 years, with the exception of the tragic Challenger O-ring in 1986, there have been no problems. Now, all of a sudden, foam is falling off the external fuel tank every time we launch one. [...]