July 27, 2005: NASA grounds the space shuttles

During its July 26, 2005, launch, cameras captured a large piece of foam falling from space shuttle Discovery’s fuel tank. Since the Columbia disaster two years prior – the break-up of the shuttle on entry and the deaths of the seven crewmembers – had been caused by foam hitting the wing and rupturing a heatContinue reading “July 27, 2005: NASA grounds the space shuttles”
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