Posted on 04/14/2003 8:35:57 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON - Almost two years before the Columbia disaster, NASA inspectors discovered a serious weakening of a shuttle's protective left-wing panel and ordered a fleetwide inspection out of fear the problem would turn up in other shuttles, internal space agency documents show.
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