Friday, October 06, 2006

Engineers Find Hole in Space Shuttle

Oct. 6, 2006 — Engineers examining the Space Shuttle Atlantis after it landed have found something that stopped them in their tracks: a small hole in the radiator on one of the shuttle's payload bay doors.

The radiator is about an inch thick, and there is a space of about nine inches between the payload bay door and the radiator.

It's not a big hole — it's about one-tenth of an inch at entry and three-hundredths of an inch at exit — but it's big enough to be seen without a flashlight.

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A Safe Landing After a Dramatic Flight

Tags: radiator | payload | Shuttle | engineers | Atlantis

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