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Rosanna Myrick Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:37:23 -0200


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The removal of the gap fillers is being added to the list of tasks set out for the spacewalk, during which Robinson and Noguchi will also install an external storage platform to the space station.

 

Calculations by NASA experts showed that the protrusions could increase the re-entry temperature by 10 percent to 30 percent, possibly exceeding NASA's safety guidelines for how much heat the shuttle's thermal protection system should be allowed to endure, Hale said.Corey Marx was with his friend watching planes land from a car parked south of the tarmac. He then saw the four-engine jet land, just as the sky "was getting really dark." One man, Mark Johnston, had come to pick up his daughter from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, when he saw the flames from the crash. "This is incredible no one died. The smoke, the fire ... whoever got these people out really did their job."The Columbia shuttle disintegrated over Texas, killing all seven crew members, as it returned from space.All 309 passengers and crew escaped the blazing wreckage of an Air France jet after it plowed off a runway and burst into flames. One of the first passengers to flee the burning plane praised the flight crew for its "organized" evacuation despite passengers "screaming and panicking." Hospitals treated 43 people for minor injuries, a Toronto airports spokesman said.


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