Sentence examples for piece of insulating from inspiring English sources

The hole was probably created when a piece of insulating foam fell from the external fuel tank and struck the wing about 81 seconds into launching.

The piece of insulating foam that hit after liftoff might have caused a T-seal to break where the top of the T meets its trunk.

That board found that a "broken safety culture" was as much a cause of the accident as the piece of insulating foam that struck the shuttle.

The accident investigation board concluded that, during the launch of the shuttle, a piece of insulating foam had torn from the external tank and struck the orbiter's left wing, weakening its thermal protection ability.

Films showed that a piece of insulating foam broke loose from the external propellant tank and struck the leading edge of the left wing approximately 81 seconds after liftoff.

Investigators suspect that a piece of insulating foam that broke off the shuttle's external fuel tank and struck the left wing seconds after liftoff created a breach that later allowed hot gases to destroy part of the shuttle's superstructure.

Investigators used wing panels from the Enterprise in tests that helped prove that the impact of pieces of insulating foam during launching doomed the Columbia.

These marks can be made with a marker pen, paint, pieces of insulating tape, washers or other flat items (use hot glue or cyanoacrylate to hold them).

Investigators of the Columbia accident attributed it to damage caused during liftoff by a piece of falling insulating foam, which, unknown to anyone, breached the shuttle's wing, and a lax attitude toward safety by NASA management.

After the shuttle Columbia broke up over Texas on Feb. 1, attention quickly focused on whether a piece of hardened insulating foam that had fallen off the external tank at liftoff on Jan . 16might have caused damage that ultimately killed the seven astronauts aboard.

On Jan . 17 a day after liftoff, a review of videos of the launching revealed that a piece of debris, apparently insulating foam that fell off the external fuel tank, slammed into Columbia's left wing 82 seconds into flight.