external tank

The stringer issue with the external tank is example enough of why.

All these cases did not involve debris from the external tank.

Three other external tanks were in preparation, when the manufacturing stopped.

But the shedding of foam from the external tank has always been different.

With Columbia, there was a history of foam coming off the external tank during launch.

They noticed on the day after launch there was some debris coming off the external tank.

The external tank was then fitted with new umbilical hardware.

During the countdown a bat was seen to be resting on the external tank.

There is a catcher on each rocket booster near the forward area of the external tank.

Obtain high-resolution images of the external tank after it separates.

The center manages the external tank that has been implicated in the Columbia accident.

During the launching, foam fell off the external tank.

The plant's sole purpose is to produce the $43 million external tanks.

During and after launch much attention was paid to monitoring the external tank for the loss of insulation foam.

With one of these babies, you can stay under for almost half an hour with no external tanks."

He'd dropped his last external tank a few minutes earlier, and all he had now was his internal fuel.

The crew also downlinked the imagery taken of the external tank separation.

The crew was also successful in down-linking imagery and video of the external tank to the ground.

Although the external tanks were always discarded, it could have been possible to re-use them in orbit.

It was assumed that the debris was foam from the external tank.

He said that damage from the external tank debris was now the "leading candidate" to explain the accident.

But the word "white" suggested the debris might have been ice from rain or condensation on the external tank.

The unusual weather conditions mean the foam insulation around the 15-story external tank was drenched.

And foam falling from the external tank almost certainly fatally damaged the Columbia this year.

Then we can drop the external tank and coast till we're approaching the Jump to the red dwarf.