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Old August 17th 07, 03:48 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
Danny Deger
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Default Interpeting Tile Damage Test Results



"MichaelJP" wrote in message
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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vortexes can easily cause tunneling, I'd have thought they ought to fix
it. The point is made that the Shuttle will survive, but do they really
want to have to strip off loads of tiles and maybe repair what is
underneath?

Seems to me that there is always going to be uncertainty. They have
returned with worse holes, but they have had to do a lot of repair work
to fix it afterwards.

Brian


One cited factor against repair on spaceflightnow.com was "astronauts have
never applied STA-54 in the vacuum of space".

Didn't they do an EVA test a while back of the repair putty? And if not
isn't that something they should have tried?



Apparently the EVA test was for the wash, not the STA-54. I am disappointed
NASA had not used the STA-54 during an EVA before. I also gathered none of
the onboard crew had ever worked with the STA-54 in training.

Danny Deger