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EMAE 381 Flight Info
The following is the information from our flight test on 10 September 2005.
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Redesigning the Space Shuttle's External Tank
Senior year is already shaping up to be crazy. I have a feeling that I'll be having a hard time keeping up with everything. Recounting all of that, however, is not the purpose of today's entry. I plan to use this entry to keep track of resources, both for myself and my classmates, that I've found for a particular class project.
Our first project in EMAE 360, formerly Engineering Design (now heaven only knows what), involves redesigning the external fuel tank of the space shuttle to prevent insulating foam from detaching and damaging the shuttle during launch. The project itself is an individual project, but I imagine that it will require the combined efforts of many students in order to track down much of the information that we are expected to have. My goal is to use this entry as a repository of relevent information for the project. If anyone has anything to contribute, please feel free to comment or send me an e-mail. I'll update this entry with whatever I get.
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