Dec 17 2002
From The Space Library
NASA announced that, although they were continuing inspections, technicians had found no similar cracks in other Shuttles after they had discovered a crack in one of Shuttle Discovery's parts. Engineers had discovered the first crack during standard inspections of Atlantis and Discovery in June 2002. The fissures were in small metal balls, a component of a liquid oxygen line. According to a NASA spokesperson, engineers had completed inspections of Atlantis, but inspections of Discovery would remain on hold until inspectors had finished examining Endeavour. However, NASA had no plans to inspect Columbia. (Chris Kidler, “NASA Inspections Find No More Shuttle Cracks,” Florida Today (Brevard, FL), 17 December 2002.)
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