Thursday, December 30, 2004
NASA Finishes Redesigned Shuttle Fuel Tank
This report from Yahoo! News says,
"NASA has finished building a redesigned space shuttle fuel tank that was reconfigured to eliminate the debris problem that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts, agency officials said on Tuesday.
Project managers called the step a major advance in returning the U.S. space program to manned flight after the shuttles were grounded when Columbia broke apart over Texas on Feb. 1, 2003.
The first reconfigured tank is to be shipped by Friday from a NASA facility near New Orleans to the Kennedy Space Center (news - web sites) in Florida as the space agency prepares for shuttle Discovery's launch in May or early June."
"NASA has finished building a redesigned space shuttle fuel tank that was reconfigured to eliminate the debris problem that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts, agency officials said on Tuesday.
Project managers called the step a major advance in returning the U.S. space program to manned flight after the shuttles were grounded when Columbia broke apart over Texas on Feb. 1, 2003.
The first reconfigured tank is to be shipped by Friday from a NASA facility near New Orleans to the Kennedy Space Center (news - web sites) in Florida as the space agency prepares for shuttle Discovery's launch in May or early June."
