Shuttle's thermal blanket to be repaired

Shuttle's thermal blanket to be repaired

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Two astronauts planned to climb out of the international space station to staple down a thermal blanket that peeled back during the launch of space shuttle Atlantis.

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Engineers don’t think the damaged section of the thermal blanket, which protects part of the shuttle from the blazing heat of re-entry, would endanger the spacecraft during landing. But it could cause enough damage to require schedule-busting repairs.

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Typical. Once again, on glorious display, the failures of the American space program. It's a program stuck with 70's technology, and the ones who suffer from this are the astronauts.

The US either needs to put heavy funding into the new generation of space craft, or the government needs to fund private aerospace.

What possesses the government to keep from funding these things properly...?

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[edit on 6/15/2007 by Togetic]

they are gonna use a surgical staple gun to fix the soft tile.
they say its ingenious


I am just glad they are gonna repair it....and I pray everyone comes home safe

and they get the computers rebooted within three months is the window I believe before it must be abandoned.