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Thursday, April 7, 2005
Okay, you’ve got some ring problems on a fuel tank and it blows up a shuttle. You’ve got some foam problem and it blows up a shuttle. You know have a “hair line crack” on the tank on the Discovery and you move on for launch. I don’t know, but if I was part of the STS-114 crew, I’d be thinking about calling in sick in mid-May.
“The crack is about the size as a hair on the lens of a camera,” NASA spokeswoman Eileen Hawley told reporters at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The crack was located just above the intertank door on the rear of the tank, opposite the orbiter, Hawley said.
“They said they will be flying as is,” Hawley said [Full Text]
