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Debris is Shuttle's Biggest Threat

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-my-cars-paint-job-has-the-same-problem dept.

Masq666 writes "Tiny rocks, paint flecks and other fragments of junk whizzing around the Earth pose the greatest threat to the shuttles and the astronauts on board, according to the preliminary results of a new NASA risk study. Even coin sized fragments can cause great damage to a shuttle, and the damage can be lethal, if it hits the windows or the heat shield."

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  1. Re:Old News by jbrader · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I hate to reply to myself, but that bold text was supposed to be a new paragraph.

    I guess that's waht I get for trying to use html to early in the morning ;)

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