Thursday, July 13, 2006
Piers Sellers and Michael Fossum tested materials and tools developed after the Columbia tragedy to see if a damaged warmth shield could be fixed during flight. Despite trailing time after one astronaut dropped an instrument, the repairs were idea to have gone well.
The question is whether the repairs, made with a caulking gun and particularly developed sealant, could withstand temperatures as lofty as 1,700C when the shuttle returns to Earth.
A crack in the wing can reason the same catastrophe that hit the seven astronauts of Columbia, who died in 2003 when fiery gases penetrated the shuttle.
The repair technique was plan by NASA to make sure such a tragedy never happens again. A similar test was conducted in a spacewalk in last year’s Discovery mission.
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