Return To Flight Jettisoned Fuel Tank is a photograph by Nasa/science Photo Library which was uploaded on February 18th, 2021.
Return To Flight Jettisoned Fuel Tank
Return to Flight external fuel tank after being jettisoned by the space shuttle Discovery during its launch. The Return to Flight mission (STS- 114)... more
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Return To Flight Jettisoned Fuel Tank
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Return to Flight external fuel tank after being jettisoned by the space shuttle Discovery during its launch. The Return to Flight mission (STS- 114) was the first flight of the space shuttle since the Columbia disaster on 1st February 2003. The launch was more closely monitored than any other in order to prevent a repeat of that mission, in which a falling piece of insulating foam during launch damaged Columbia's heat shield, leading to it exploding on re-entry. During Discovery's launch there was some debris loss from this tank (white dot at centre), but it did not hit the shuttle. STS-114 launched on 26th July 2005.
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