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Old July 16th 04, 09:50 AM
Jan Vorbrüggen
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Default SpaceShipOne and reentry heat

And in the end, it *won't* *save* *you*. Post-Columbia RCC tests have shown
that even cracks or quarter-inch pits that don't completely penetrate the
RCC can be fatal.


Is there a press release or somesuch available somewhere that summarizes
these experiments?

If your conclusion above is correct, then it seems to me that previous
flights have been lucky in that, for instance, those paint flecks made
their pits in the windows and not some piece of RCC.

Jan