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Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged During Discovery's Launch

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the time-to-upgrade dept.

pumpkinpuss writes "Launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center suffered unusual damage during the shuttle Discovery's blastoff Saturday. Pictures from a NASA source show buckled concrete and numerous concrete blocks or bricks, presumably from the flame trench, littering a road behind the pad."

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  1. Re:anyone know? by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 5, Funny

    42

  2. So, in other words... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The shuttle shit a brick?

  3. Obvious explanation for the bricks by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given how scary space travel is, it's no surprise that the astronauts left behind a trail of bricks all over the pad.

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  4. In Other News by JoshOOOWAH · · Score: 5, Funny

    38A continues to beat on the ceiling with a broom and indicate that NASA should "[K]nock off that unholy racket!"

  5. Re:Considering the pounding the pads take by SGDarkKnight · · Score: 5, Funny

    about 50 meters above the launch pad.

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