foam fuel tank
Jul 4 2006, Irani

Despite a crack in the insulating foam fuel tank of the space shuttle, the NASA officials have decided to go ahead with the plan of launching the Discovery today — July 4.

According to NASA, the piece of foam broken off the fuel tank of...

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