Re: PAL ramp photos

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:47:49 -0700, snidely wrote:

> You might check nasawatch.com or the Washington Post for comments by
> June Malone, a spokeswoman for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
> Huntsville, Ala.
>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/09/AR2005080901394.html

<quote>

June Malone, a spokeswoman for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala., which manages the external tank, said she could not
speak about investigators' findings but confirmed that workers at the
Michoud plant at one point performed an abrading procedure "in the general
vicinity" of the eventual failure. The aim was to smooth out a divot in
the tank's foam, which is extremely heat-resistant but easily gouged.

<end quote>

Thanks.

Hummm.

Abrading procedure sounds like some sort of shallow surface repair.

I still wonder if there may have been some deeper repair (or manufacturing
process) that produced the perpendicular failure line?

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Craig Fink
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