Orbiter Repair ...Re: Hubble Repair a.....

Brian Gaff wrote:

As far as I'm aware, there are some repair items on both shuttles, but
the indications are that nothing big has hit the shuttle while on
orbit.

I was just wondering what items they came up with, to pick a worst case
example, a hole in the nose cap RCC? Or, wing leading edge? They have
had years studying it, so what do they have? Things that may or may not
work, but that they have on hand to bring an empty crippled Orbiter down
to a safe landing?

Things like a form fitting blanket for the nose cap, a couple more for
the wing leading edge. Contingency type stuff, that is unverifiable, but
useful and would most likely work.

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