Extra damage inspections planned for Discovery
Heightened concern over the threat of micrometeoroid or space debris damage to the space shuttle's re-entry thermal protection system will force the crew of the next space shuttle mission to make extra inspections of Discovery's wings and belly in orbit. Those inspections, to be made from inside the...
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