The Space Needle is My Neighbor

EIGHT YEARS AND COUNTING What Have We Learned So Far?
"A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Monday, July 03, 2006

Spacecraft or Kugelhopf? I Have A Bad Feeling About This

NASA Mulls Options After Foam Falls Off Fuel-Tank Bracket

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA managers are keeping their options open for a Fourth of July space shuttle launch, even though a piece of foam insulation the size of a bread crust fell off Discovery’s external fuel tank.

Exactly what size is that crust? Baguette? Batarde? Challah?

God help us if it's one of those giant sandwiches from Subway.