MISSION 63's BOOSTERS DAMAGED AFTER DESCENT
Rough seas and winds nearly destroyed the $76-million pair of solid-rocket boosters that helped launch the shuttle Discovery. NASA engineers did a full-scale failure analysis to verify that the damage to the SRBs was in fact caused by surface conditions and not by a problem during their roughly 2...
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