Lab employees learn of shuttle vulnerabilities at talk
James Walker of Southwest Research Institute delineated the causes of the Columbia space shuttle crash and discussed the monitoring efforts behind the Discovery mission during his talk entitled, “From Columbia to Discovery: Understanding the Impact Threat to the Space Shuttle,” last Friday.

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