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Mystery of Launch Pad 39A Solved. It Was Flawed from the Beginning.

On May 31, 2008 the Discovery space shuttle was launched into space from the Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the STS-124 mission destined to deliver the second section of the massive Japanese space laboratory Kibo to the International Space Station. All went well during liftoff and afterwards, although the launch pad was far from OK. A total of 5,300 bricks had been dislodged from the flame trench of the launch pad and thrown off several meters away as the space shuttle sta... Read »
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