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MasterShrink wrote:
Then on the STS-95 launch the drag chute door came off during SSME
ignition, which struck the outside of the center nozzle.
....
Even though I doubt possibly losing the drag chute is as bad as losing
thermal protection seeing as NASA didn't use drag chutes till STS 49.

If the chute had deployed during launch, that would have been a real drag.
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