Shuttle’s Foam Problem Won’t Affect Orion Spacecraft
NASA officials stated on Friday, August 24, 2007 that they found microscopic cracks in the foam covers on brackets of Discovery’s external tank (ET) during inspections for its STS-120 mission on October 23.
They think this problem contributed to foam shearing off of Endeavour’s ET when the STS-118 mission lifted off on August 8.
NASA found the cracks when they performed x-ray analysis of the brackets on the external tank of Discovery, which is scheduled to lift off next. Read more…
