Featured Worklog
Price Search
PC Apex Sponsor
PC Apex Sponsors
PC Apex RSS Feeds
| |||||||
| Slashdot RSS RSS news feed directly from Slashdot. |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
28-February-07, 11:30 AM
| #1 (permalink) |
| News Hound  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Floating among Data streams, waiting for the right moment
Posts: 44,023
  |  Slashdot // Golf-Ball Sized Hail Damages Shuttle MattSparkes writes "The Shuttles March launch has been delayed to late April after golf-ball sized hail caused 7000 pits and divots in the foam that shields the fuel tank. NASA say it's the worst damage of its kind that they have ever seen, but hail is not a new problem for the agency. In 1982, a hailstorm damaged the sensitive heat shield tiles on the Columbia's wings. The damaged tiles then absorbed about 540 kilograms of rain. Once in space, the orbiter faced the Sun to allow the tiles to dry out." More... |
|  |
| Sponsored Links |
|
| Bookmarks |
« Slashdot // Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008
|
Slashdot // Audio Watermark Web Spider Starts Crawling »
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
| |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Slashdot // British Record Companies Win £41m In Damages | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 29-May-07 06:20 PM |
| Slashdot // Microsoft to Pay $1.52 Billion in Patent Suit Damages | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 22-February-07 09:40 PM |
| Slashdot // More Evidence For Hobbit Sized Species | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 12-October-05 03:58 AM |
| Slashdot // Cuban Says RIAA Damages Should be $5 Per Month | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 18-May-05 03:12 AM |
| Slashdot // Cyberlibel Damages Awarded In Canada | Gizmo | Slashdot RSS | 0 | 15-November-04 03:09 AM |
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:44 AM.
Advertisements
