Re: NASA grounds future shuttle flights





Alex Terrell wrote:

Did this always happen, and we only see it now becuase of all the
cameras and the searching?



We do have imagery of ETs after they were jettisoned by the Orbiter on-orbit taken from the orbiter (not as detailed as Discovery's though).
IIRC, that was how they first located the problem with the bipod ramp foam shedding.


Pat
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