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<blockquote data-quote="L8APEX" data-source="post: 16283667" data-attributes="member: 51947"><p>It's amazing looking back that we only lost two Orbiters.</p><p>Atlantis got peppered worse than Columbia in STS-27, on just the 2nd flight after Challenger.</p><p>700 damaged tiles and one missing, thankfully there was a steel plate for an antenna taking up most of the exposed area instead of just aluminum.</p><p>The astronauts could see the damage and thought they were done, and were getting pissed with mission control's lack of concern. </p><p>It was carrying a DoD satellite so the only transmissions were low quality and encrypted. Engineers on the ground saw what they thought were lights and shadows not that it was so badly damaged.</p><p>As it landed NASA had an a huge "Holy..." moment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="L8APEX, post: 16283667, member: 51947"] It's amazing looking back that we only lost two Orbiters. Atlantis got peppered worse than Columbia in STS-27, on just the 2nd flight after Challenger. 700 damaged tiles and one missing, thankfully there was a steel plate for an antenna taking up most of the exposed area instead of just aluminum. The astronauts could see the damage and thought they were done, and were getting pissed with mission control's lack of concern. It was carrying a DoD satellite so the only transmissions were low quality and encrypted. Engineers on the ground saw what they thought were lights and shadows not that it was so badly damaged. As it landed NASA had an a huge "Holy..." moment. [/QUOTE]
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