Crew completes evening of heat shield inspections
Submit on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 13:00
The astronauts unlimbered the shuttle’s robot arm and inspected the ship’s nose cap and wing leading edge panels with a laser scanner on the end of a 50-foot-long boom. The areas of the orbiter that experience the most extreme heating during re-entry appeared in good shape to the untrained eye, including the nose section where launch imagery indicates a possible bird or debris strike about 10 seconds after liftoff.
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