A new report from a study panel details the causes leading to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, with the panel recommending many corrective and preventive moves to avert further tragedies, while also concluding that some factors in the tragedy will remain unknown. As Columbia lifted off and headed to the International Space Station, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the external fuel tank and punched a hole in a wing of the orbiter vehicle. Later, during…
Report Details Causes Of Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster; Some Unknowns Remain, Panel Finds
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