Shuttle Fuel Tank Design.

[Duane Bozarth]

....

I'll have to see what I can find on this...seems like some sort of non-destructive test could be used to eliminate voids if that were the root cause...

[meirman]

In alt.home.repair on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:52:53 GMT "Dave" posted:

Right. Some girl on the radio thought of it too. So we know NASA thought of it.

Meirman

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[meirman]

In alt.home.repair on Sat, 30 Jul 2005 09:45:16 -0500 Duane Bozarth posted:

I heard on a news show, not sure which, either what he said or that air in the foam expanded and broke off pieces.

Now that I post, I'm not sure if this is the current foam or the earlier foam. Oops.

Meirman

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[Jim Yanik]

Duane Bozarth wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I live in Orlando,and the local paper (Orlando Sentinel)has had some very detained articles on this subject.

[Duane Bozarth]

Jim Yanik wrote: ...

Are they online?

[CR]

Best one I've read so far.

CR

[Jim Yanik]

Duane Bozarth wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I haven't looked,but I suspect they are.

[Frank J Warner]

Likely. Notice it's not even holding up at 72 deg F.

-Frank

[J. Clarke]

Huh? What is a hairnet supposed to do?

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Somehow I think they may have thought of it already. Just in case, though, give them a call. They'll probably be glad to hear from you.

[nick hull]

There is no reason for the fuel tank to be insulated AFTER liftoff, some designs purposely have the insulation fall off at ignition.

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