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NASA Prepares The SIRTF For Launch

Posted by timothy on from the up-in-the-air-junior-birdman dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "NASA is ready to button up the SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility) probe for launch. The panorama is of the clean room at Hangar AE on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as the SIRTF team makes final adjustments."

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  1. NASA may have cause of Columbia Accident by chuckpeters · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I submitted this story, but someone didn't think it was worth slashdot, it just happens to be the biggest story StarrySkies has had an early sccop on... It should have been posted!

    Information retreived from Columbia's Flight Data Recorder coupled with CAT scan images of shuttle Atlantis' leading wing's RCC panels may provide the answers to what happened to Columbia. Early results from the flight data recorder indicate structural damage to Columbia much earlier than perviously thought, even before re-entry. Also, CAT scans of the reinforced carbon carbon panels from the wing's leading edges off Atlantis, show minute gaps in the layers. These gaps could allow superheated gases to enter into Columbia's wing. If all the data proves correct, Columbia was likely doomed before ever reaching the launch pad.

    http://starryskies.com/articles/2003/03/columbia.h tml