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Saturday, June 09, 2007


There a tear, in the blanket, dear NASA, dear NASA.
NASA experts analyzed a small gap in the fabric heat-shielding of shuttle Atlantis' tail section Saturday as the seven astronauts aboard raced toward a rendezvous with the international space station.

The 4-inch gap in fabric that stretches across one of two rocket engines used for orbital maneuvers could be repaired in a spacewalk if necessary, the space agency said.

"If we decide this is a problem, we have a lot of capabilities to go address it," John Shannon, who chairs NASA's mission-management team, said at a news briefing.
Ok, that's all well and good and all, and quite frankly, problems at the Mission Control Center are a lot bigger deal when they happen during the week (as opposed to a Saturday), so I can understand why they're keeping it low key. My question is what is up with the Chronicle? They've probably fixed the side bar by the time anyone would read this (who am I kidding? NO ONE is reading this) so I made a screen-cap of it:


STS-115? That wasn't even the last shuttle flight. This is incredibly bad, even for a Hearst paper, but the home town of Mission Control can't do better than this? Come on, guys.

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