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Air pockets' effect on shuttle probed / NASA STS-107
SJ Mercury News ^
| 3/27/03
| Mike Schneider - AP
Posted on 03/27/2003 12:21:28 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Investigators of the Columbia accident are studying whether pockets of cold air caused foam on the external fuel tank to peel off and strike the space shuttle's left wing during takeoff.
The phenomenon, called cryo-pumping, was found in foam on another external fuel tank that was dissected at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The tank was a little newer than the one on Columbia.
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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: airpockets; effect; nasa; probed; shuttle; sts107
cryo-pumping
To: NormsRevenge
The title made me think they were suspecting that the Shuttle hit some "air pockets", or turbulence, which peeled off the foam.
To: brityank
Ping.
I tagged this on the end of Orbiter thread.
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posted on
03/27/2003 12:50:36 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... God Bless Our Troops and families.)
To: guitfiddlist
Hmm.
You'd want this stuff to be as homogenous as possible. Differing density will create tensile and shear forces within the foam. Question: would it be ENOUGH of a force?
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posted on
03/27/2003 12:52:57 PM PST
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: leadpenny
Ping.
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03/27/2003 2:11:17 PM PST
by
ken in texas
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