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Tuesday, 7 September 2004

Shuttles Safe - VAB and Tile Facility Heavily Damaged by Francis

Shuttles Safe - VAB and Tile Facility Heavily Damaged by Francis

Paul H bristolia at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 7 09:56:02 EDT 2004

Shuttle space centre surveys hurricane damage
12:17 07 September 04, NewScientist.com news service
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996361

"All three remaining space shuttles weathered
Hurricane
Frances without apparent damage, after the cyclone
weakened before hitting the Florida coast south of
Cape Canaveral. But the massive Vehicle Assembly
Building
(VAB) took heavy damage."

The Shuttle Tile Facility was heavily damaged.


Frances tears panels from NASA shuttle hangar
Monday, September 6, 2004
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/06/nasa.frances.cnn/

Yours,

Paul
Baton Rouge, LA

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