NASA Finds Critical Assembly Fault in Shuttle

mzs writes "During corrosion inspection on Discovery, technicians noticed that one of the gears in a rudder actuator had been installed backwards. This particular actuator was the top-most of four that control the air brakes on the tail. As luck turns out, if it had been the bottom-most actuator, loss of the shuttle and crew would have been nearly inevitable. Plans are in place to have four spares by the time Shuttle missions resume next year."

Comments

Re:Four Spare of what?

[SoCalChris]

I thought they meant 4 spare astronauts, for when the next shuttle fails.

Re:TOO BAD

[ThaReetLad]

Those values are things such as liberty and justice.

You forgot to mention that liberty and justice come with the standard suspected terrorist excemption clause which also includes anyone who happens not to be white.

You also forgot to mention the other values that the stars and stripes stands for, namely greed, paranoia and blind patriotism.

Freedom of speach is overrated. I am not allowed to say, for example, that I believe that it is the duty of every true Englishman to go out and kill one niger per day. I would be arrested for inciting racial hatred, and rightly so.

If freedom of speach means that people have the right to preach hatred and violence, then I for one am against it.