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...mission control inside the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the sense of calm was noticeably higher than that during liftoff nearly a month ago when two minutes into the flight it was learned that foam debris which doomed Columbia had also fallen from Discovery's detachable fuel tank...
...high degree of safety is a direct result of the new ability to examine the shuttle in flight with remote cameras. And while the dislodged foam caused much consternation at the space agency, Discovery had the least loss of foam when compared to the other shuttle launches. Still, the first-ever space walk to the underside of the shuttle was deemed necessary to pull cloth from between tiles, again to err on the side of caution. And despite the smaller amount of foam debris hits, NASA admits that the largest chunk to fall could have been equally disastrous...
...Even the shuttle's flight path home was done for safety, in an eerie sort of way. The path to Florida did not go over the Southeastern United States, where Columbia broke up,but instead was routed via the Gulf of Mexico. The path to Edwards specifically avoided flying over the city of Los Angeles...
...NASA has already announced it will not fly another shuttle until it can ensure even greater safety, and it will tout any next shuttle mission as one more apt to capture the imagination of the public that space flight has been known for. The Discovery flight was to retrieve two tons of garbage from a space station many often forget even exists. Now, NASA must ensure it can continue to secure the existing shuttle's foam coverage if it wants to continue flights through its planned 2010 retirement; it must also design a new manned orbitor and complete the space...
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