Dryden Gave a LIFT for Shuttle’s Return To Flight

Posted by brandoniswrite on December 17, 2011

As part of NASA’s Return to Flight effort following the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its crew during mission STS-107 on Feb. 1, 2003, NASA’s Johnson Space Center approached NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center for help in modeling thermal protection system foam loss from the shuttle’s external fuel tank. The Columbia Accident Investigation [...]

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Best Look Yet of Comet Lovejoy’s Slingshot Around the Sun

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There have been some great images and video of Comet Lovejoy’s close encounter with the Sun, but this video put together by Scott Wiessinger from Goddard Spaceflight Center combines and zooms in on the best views from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which adjusted its cameras in order to watch the trajectory. The first part [...]

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