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5 August 2005, 01:18 AM
دوستان همین الان موفق به گرفتن فیلم شاتل همراه با گزارش شدم
By Alan Boyle
Science editor
MSNBC
Updated: 4:37 p.m. ET Aug. 4, 2005
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After days of analysis and one repair spacewalk, NASA has decided that the shuttle is "safe to fly for re-entry," a top mission manager said Thursday.
The final issue of concern — a torn thermal blanket just below the cockpit window that might shed bits of debris during the shuttle's descent — was cleared off the table Thursday morning after a series of wind-tunnel tests, said deputy shuttle program manager Wayne Hale, who heads Discovery's mission management team.
The tests indicated that even if pieces of cloth debris blew off and struck the aft section of the orbiter, it would be "of negligible concern" and pose no threat to Discovery's safe landing, he said. Under those circumstances, sending spacewalkers out to snip away the torn section would have violated the "first, do no harm" rule, Hale said.
• Free video: NBC News and MSNBC TV report on shuttle mission (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8515881/)
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Back in space (javascript:SSOpen('8731114','0');)
Latest images of Discovery's mission
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By Alan Boyle
Science editor
MSNBC
Updated: 4:37 p.m. ET Aug. 4, 2005
Alan Boyle
Science editor
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
• Profile
After days of analysis and one repair spacewalk, NASA has decided that the shuttle is "safe to fly for re-entry," a top mission manager said Thursday.
The final issue of concern — a torn thermal blanket just below the cockpit window that might shed bits of debris during the shuttle's descent — was cleared off the table Thursday morning after a series of wind-tunnel tests, said deputy shuttle program manager Wayne Hale, who heads Discovery's mission management team.
The tests indicated that even if pieces of cloth debris blew off and struck the aft section of the orbiter, it would be "of negligible concern" and pose no threat to Discovery's safe landing, he said. Under those circumstances, sending spacewalkers out to snip away the torn section would have violated the "first, do no harm" rule, Hale said.
• Free video: NBC News and MSNBC TV report on shuttle mission (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8515881/)
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Interactives/Technology_Science/Space/SMall_shuttle_free.thumb.jpg
Back in space (javascript:SSOpen('8731114','0');)
Latest images of Discovery's mission
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss_050727_mission/ss_050803_mission_df_tease.thumb.jpg