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...financial and policy questions posed by the commission's recommendations. The report urges that the shuttle's booster joints be entirely redesigned rather than just modified and that the rockets $ be test-fired vertically instead of horizontally. It proposes that long-known weaknesses in the tires, brakes and nosewheel steering of the orbiters be corrected; that all the shuttle's critical parts be reviewed; that sufficient spare parts be assembled so one shuttle would no longer be cannibalized to allow a second one to fly; that Edwards Air Force Base in California be considered the primary landing site...
...making been so widely televised-or gracefully avoided-as last week's EMERGENCY LANDING of JetBlue flight 292, whose front landing gear became twisted just after taking off from Burbank, California, en route to New York. Pilot Scott Burke landed safely in Los Angeles by keeping the damaged nosewheel up as long as possible, before dropping it to the tarmac-sparking flames but nothing worse. "I am so glad we got that guy," said passenger Alexandra Jacobs. "I just want to give him a big wet smooch...
...slightly higher than usual-all of which helped burn off unwanted fuel faster-the pilots executed a textbook emergency landing a Los Angeles. They brought the plane in as slow as possible, touched down in the center of the runway, and by holding the sidestick back kept the nosewheel from touching down until the last moment, and then applied the brakes to come to a safe stop. The incident also carried a reminder for passengers-flying is the safest its ever been in the U.S. but a large part of that depends on the steady hands...
WHAT WENT WRONG . . . The largest piece of foam missed Discovery entirely. Another piece may have struck the wing but did no obvious damage. Protective tiles on the orbiter's underside, including one near its vulnerable nosewheel well, seem to have been gouged during launch, perhaps by more falling foam...
...diagnose and fix launch damage before a shuttle returns to Earth ?THE SPACE STATION Astronauts aboard the space station are taking high-resolution photographs of each shuttle before it docks with the station. That's one way the small "divots," or scrapes--including the one near the nosewheel well--were found on Discovery's underbelly ?THE ROBOTIC ARM Discovery is equipped with a new 50-ft. (15.2-m) robotic arm that will reach out from the cargo bay to take infrared pictures of the orbiter at very close range, looking for potential problem areas ?THE PATCH...