Sentence examples for chunks of foam from inspiring English sources

Much the same attitude prevailed in recent years when chunks of foam repeatedly fell off the external tank and gouged small holes in the shuttles' thermal protection system.

This is its most expensive way yet of launching chunks of foam at your little brother, retailing for an eye-watering £85.

As the shuttle was launched and accelerated, the theory went, the liquid was boiled back into a gas, expanding and breaking off chunks of foam.

The more disparate works in the final gallery include two in which the images are attached to chunks of foam, and, in the case of an impressive piece titled "Lost Dogs and Half-Eaten Apples," stuck into pedestals of hand-shaped clay.

Lawmakers questioned Sean O'Keefe, the NASA administrator, about why he learned only on Wednesday of e-mail messages in which engineers discuss whether chunks of foam insulation that hit the shuttle during its ascent might cause catastrophic failures in the landing gear and hydraulics.

So the investigators have used tests on the door mock-up to calibrate their equipment, which includes a gun with a 30-foot barrel that fires chunks of foam at speeds of nearly 800 feet a second, or more than 500 miles a hour.

I don't think this came off as a chunk of foam and solidified with ice.

The key missing link is the lack of definitive proof that the chunk of foam punched the fatal hole.

That's going to be part of our test program, but we don't believe it's this chunk of tile, or chunk of foam.

The Columbia broke apart on re-entry apparently because of wing damage caused on liftoff by a chunk of foam thrown off the external tank.

Most recently, a chunk of foam flew off the shuttle Atlantis and caused what officials described as minor damage to a solid rocket booster.