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Shuttle, space station link amid NASA woes
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-07-29 07:10
NASA redesigned parts of the tank after the Columbia accident, but did not
make any changes to the ramp.
"We didn't think the ramp was a problem," Shannon said. "Obviously we were
wrong."
In space, the seven astronauts on Discovery, which flew its first mission in
1984, went about their business with nary a word about problems on Earth.
In a maneuver planned before launch, Collins steered Discovery into a slow
back flip 600 feet (182 meters) below the space station while station crew
members Sergei Krikalev and Phillips snapped pictures of Discovery's damaged
tiles.
The photos will be used to determine if NASA is correct in thinking the
shuttle is OK to return home. More inspections were scheduled for Friday.
Discovery is scheduled to stay a week at the station, during which time its
crew will hand over 15 tons of supplies ranging from food to light bulbs to new
laptop computers and pick up 13 tons of junk to carry back to earth.
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