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...little force it didn't register on impact sensors. But a camera mounted on the shuttle's 50-ft. arm as well as photos taken from the station have detected at least 25 dings in Discovery's insulating tiles. The most worrisome: a 1.5-in. divot near the nose, where temperatures can reach 3000?...
...UNDER THE SHUTTLE The orbiter didn't escape unharmed. There are at least 25 dings on its underside, including one near the nose, where temperatures can climb dangerously high ?FOAM DEBRIS The biggest chunk was 2 to 3 ft. wide (0.6 to 0.9 m), about 1 ft. long (0.3 m) and up to 8 in. (20 cm) thick; it probably weighed 0.9 lbs. (0.4 kg), about half the size of the piece that downed Columbia ?THE TROUBLESOME RAMP Most of the falling bits came from the so-called PAL ramp, a ridge of hand-sprayed foam designed...
...WHAT DANGERS LIE AHEAD During re-entry, Discovery's nose and the leading edges of the shuttle's wings--and the atmosphere surrounding them--could heat to as much as 3000ºF (1650ºC). Any chink in the shuttle's heat-resistant armor could allow superheated air to penetrate unprotected areas, where it would act like a blowtorch--the same process that destroyed Columbia ?TILE DAMAGE One gouge is close to the wheel well, where an influx of hot gases could cause an explosion
...Harvey Weinstein backing Grimm. The Weinsteins overruled Gilliam's choice of Samantha Morton as the female lead (they wanted a more conventionally beautiful actress, and got one in Lena Headey). They fired cinematographer Nicola Pecorini after six weeks (he was shooting too slowly, they said) and nixed a silly nose Damon was to wear (Bob says, "It would be the most expensive nose job in history"). "I'm used to riding roughshod over studio executives," Gilliam says, "but the Weinsteins rode roughshod over me." To Bob, it was just business. "Any film involves the making of 10,000 decisions...
...Americans who on Aug. 6, 1945, boarded the B-29 bomber with the name Enola Gay painted on its nose would forget little about that long day. They remembered staying up through the night and eating breakfast long before dawn. Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk had pineapple fritters. "I love the damn things," Van Kirk, 84, says today from his home in Stone Mountain, Ga. "I'll never forget the pineapple damn fritters." The Enola Gay left Tinian, in the Marianas chain, at 2:45 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive over Hiroshima, a city at the south...