Sentence examples for underside of the shuttle from inspiring English sources

To remove that threat, NASA ordered the first-ever spacewalk to the underside of the shuttle.

The underside of the shuttle is covered with heat-resistant ceramic tiles that can take almost as much punishment.

NASA opted against using the repair method on the Space Shuttle Endeavour last month after debris from the external fuel tank came off during launch and struck thermal tiles located on the underside of the shuttle.

A17 SCIENCE/HEALTH Astronaut Set for Shuttle Work Stephen K. Robinson, the astronaut who will try to pluck two thin pieces of cloth from the underside of the shuttle Discovery, said that the risks of the operation were manageable.

Still, Alex has followed the spacewalks the Discovery astronauts have made over the last two weeks, including one to remove two protruding strips of ceramic cloth known as gap fillers from the underside of the shuttle.

Because of that, Mr. Shannon said it was not worth subjecting the astronauts to the risks of a spacewalk to the underside of the shuttle, which has never been done.

A1 Shuttle Was Hit by Debris A piece of debris hit the underside of the space shuttle Endeavour during liftoff and gouged a small but potentially worrisome divot in a heat shield tile, NASA officials said.

A piece of debris hit the underside of the space shuttle Endeavour during liftoff on Wednesday and gouged a small but potentially worrisome divot in a heat shield tile, NASA officials said yesterday.

A laser scanner in the boom, designed and built in response to the Columbia disaster to conduct inspections of the shuttle's underside, provided the exact shape and size of the gouge.

That allowed the station crew to take high-resolution video and still images of the shuttle's underside, and those images revealed the gouge, located about four feet behind the landing gear door on the right wing.

During liftoff a week ago, a piece of foam fell from the Endeavour's external fuel tank, bounced off a strut and hit the underside of the orbiter, an event reminiscent of the falling foam that doomed the shuttle Columbia in 2003.