Gouge Found on Shuttle Endeavour's Underside 151
SonicSpike writes " NASA has discovered a chunk missing from the underside of the space shuttle Endeavour. It was discovered after the shuttle docked with the ISS earlier today. Technicians theorize it may have been caused by ice ripping free of a fuel take during takeoff. From the article:'The gouge — about 3 inches square — was spotted in zoom-in photography taken by the space station crew shortly before Endeavour delivered teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan and her six crewmates to the orbiting outpost ... On Sunday, the astronauts will inspect the area, using Endeavour's 100-foot robot arm and extension beam. Lasers on the end of the beam will gauge the exact size and depth of the gouge, Shannon said, and then engineering analyses will determine whether the damage is severe enough to warrant repairs. Radar images show a white spray or streak coming off Endeavour 58 seconds after liftoff. Engineers theorize that if the debris was ice, it pierced the tile and then broke up, scraping the area downwind. Pictures from Friday's photo inspection show downwind scrapes."
Where's the 250 Foot Robot? (Score:5, Funny)
You know what bugs me? Ok? They have this 100-foot robot arm but they don't have the 250-foot robot that it must have come from. I mean if it has lasers on its ARM, imagine what else it has lasers on. Like, for example, on it's frikken head.
Which it's important to know if theres a 250-foot frikken robot with frikken lasers on its frikken head out there roaming around all mad because NASA ripped its arm off.
Deep [bleep] (Score:2, Funny)
Re:First post (Score:5, Funny)
Think that's hard, next try to get your First Girlfriend
Re:How that little porn star get there? (Score:3, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/...id=44091&cid=4592270)
I will never socialize with a Slashdot user. Sorry guys
Blame yourselves.
Re:Where's the 250 Foot Robot? (Score:5, Funny)
tagged: spacedrama (Score:3, Funny)
Rocket Scientists? (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe they could find some way to overcome whatever this treacherous material is that they've codenamed: "Styrofoam."
Although the new cameras do give us much nicer pictures of the things they decided were too hard to fix.
Color radar? (Score:2, Funny)
Of course there's a gouge! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Of course there's a gouge! (Score:3, Funny)
We'll go at night !
Re:Can't be the First Time (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can't be the First Time (Score:3, Funny)