Via CNN: NASA grounds shuttle fleet
There will be no more shuttle launches until NASA engineers determine the effect of debris that fell from the shuttle Discovery during blastoff Tuesday, said Bill Parsons, space shuttle program manager.“We are treating it very seriously,” he told reporters. “Are we losing sleep over it? Not yet.”
Lovely. Always nice to ground a fleet of craft when one is in space.
This is not good news for NASA
NASA announced today that a large chunk of foam peeled off from the external tank during yesterday’s launch of the Discovery and that because of theat, all future flights are now grounded until they find a solution for this:
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