Posted
6/19/2004 03:01:00 PM
by Douglas
Seventeen months after STS-107 disappeared in a fiery ball in the skies of East Texas, what have the brilliant minds of NASA been working on?
spackleWhen space shuttle flights resume, the astronauts will have putty and other filler to repair cracks and small gashes in the wings, but they will not be able to patch a hole as big as the one that doomed Columbia, NASA said Friday.
Michael Kostelnik, deputy associate administrator, said it is taking longer than expected to come up with a technique for wrapping a crater as big as the one gouged in Columbia's wing by a chunk of foam last year.
A bunch of rocket scientists, these guys. . .