Source: PhysOrg.com
NASA will use enhanced imaging equipment to examine Discovery from every angle during its return to space Wednesday, scanning for the kind of damage that doomed its predecessor Columbia. A total of 107 cameras will be installed around the launch pad and at distances of six to 60 kilometers (some 3.5 to 35 miles) away, as well as on board two airplanes, which will film and photograph the orbiter's first two minutes of ascent.
Other lenses will be mounted on the shuttle itself, its two booster rockets and external tanks, to see whether pieces of insulation foam or ice fall off during the launch and strike the shuttle. It should allow scientists to detect the slightest crack in the shuttle's thermal protection, according to Bob Page, the official in charge of the imaging system.
If the images show that Discovery has been seriously damaged, it will remain docked at the Space Station and its seven astronauts will wait there for another shuttle to bring them back to Earth, in what would be the first such rescue for the space program. Discovery would then be pulled away from the ISS and allowed to plunge into the ocean.
If NASA then Innovation talks for itself. People in U.S. learn from their mistakes and keep improving and innovating. But why Indians despite of very heavy experiences in train accidents every month doesnt care for the lives of the thousands?
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Other lenses will be mounted on the shuttle itself, its two booster rockets and external tanks, to see whether pieces of insulation foam or ice fall off during the launch and strike the shuttle. It should allow scientists to detect the slightest crack in the shuttle's thermal protection, according to Bob Page, the official in charge of the imaging system.
If the images show that Discovery has been seriously damaged, it will remain docked at the Space Station and its seven astronauts will wait there for another shuttle to bring them back to Earth, in what would be the first such rescue for the space program. Discovery would then be pulled away from the ISS and allowed to plunge into the ocean.
If NASA then Innovation talks for itself. People in U.S. learn from their mistakes and keep improving and innovating. But why Indians despite of very heavy experiences in train accidents every month doesnt care for the lives of the thousands?
Category:NASA
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