NASA Makes Progress On Foam Loss

SHUTTLE NEWS

External Tank 120 leaves Kennedy Space Center for work at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

Houston TX (SPX) Oct 17, 2005
Engineers are moving closer to resolving the problem of large foam insulation falling off space shuttle external fuel tanks during launch.

A "tiger team" is making recommendations addressing the factors that may have contributed to foam loss when the space shuttle Discovery (STS-114) was launched in July.

The next shuttle mission is also on Discovery. It will be the second test flight in the Return to Flight sequence. At a news conference today at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, space shuttle managers emphasized they have not set a specific launch date.

NASA is using the May 3 to 23, 2006, launch window as a target for work to prepare Discovery for the mission.

SPACE TRAVEL

Northrop Grumman-Boeing Team Unveils Plans For Space Shuttle Successor

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2005
The Northrop Grumman and Boeing CEV team today unveiled its plans to design and build NASA's proposed Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), a modular space system intended to carry humans to the International Space Station by 2012 and back to the moon by 2018.

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