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♪ ♪ ♪ -my wife, laurel, was on the shuttle. she was a scientist primarily involved with life sciences. one day during the mission, i was reviewing the notes, and then heres this foam issue. during launch, a large piece of foam had come off the external tank and impacted the left wing. me and my colleague had this discussion of, "hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew." -oh! -you got to remember the hat youre wearing is your flight-surgeo...

-given the fact that you may have lost a little bit of tile during lift-off, im wondering if theres going to be anything different about the entry profile, taking that into regard. -no, there isnt. we -- the engineers and analysts took a very thorough look at the situation with the tile on the left wing, and we have no concerns whatsoever. all of the analysis says that we have plenty of margin and that the impact could not have been significant enough. and, therefore, we havent changed anything ...

Given the fact that you may have lost a little bit of tile during liftoff, im wondering if theres going to be anything different about the entry profile, taking that into regard. No, there isnt. We the engineers and analysts took a very thorough look at the situation with the tile on the left wing, and we have no concerns whatsoever. All of the analysis says that we have plenty of margin and that the impact could not have been significant enough. And, therefore, we havent changed anything with r...

Micro moons are more than 40,000 km farther away then super moons.

Micro moons are more than 40,000 km farther away then super moons.

Micro moons are more than 40,000 km farther away then super moons.

Micro moons are more than 40,000 km farther away then super moons.

Micro moons are more than 40,000 km farther away then super moons.

Copernicus, a generalized spacecraft trajectory design and optimization system, is capable of solving a wide range of trajectory problems such as planet or

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