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NASA Redesigning The Space Shuttle

Posted by timothy on from the tweaking-this-and-that dept.

ekarjala writes "To avoid wing damage from foam separation in the future, NASA is planning a redesign of the existing shuttle. Seems to me it is time to consider a new design rather than a redesign -- let's take the lessons we've learned and create a space craft for the 21st century rather than re-treading a 30-year-old design."

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  1. Misleading /. title by elliotj · · Score: 4, Informative

    Um, I may be the only one to actually READ the linked article, but it really doesn't say that they're redesigning the Space Shuttle. They're considering a new design for the part that is supposedly responsible for causing the crash. To say that they're redesigning the shuttle I think is overstating things.