Discovery Astronauts Inspect Orbiter For Damage
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery spent March 16 using a 50-foot-long boom to inspect the belly, nose and wing leading edges of their orbiter for any of the sort of damage that doomed the shuttle Columbia. Known as the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS), the...
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