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Forum:	Space Shuttles - Space Station
Topic:	Pad 39A: Shuttle launch ejects Apollo-era debris

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]In this photo taken by [URL=http://www.launchphotography.com/STS-124.html]Ben Cooper[/URL] for Spaceflight Now, you can see debris falling into the water at the base of the plume from the launch of Discovery. <center><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/sts124_launch05.jpg" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300"></center> The source of that debris can be seen in photos of Pad 39A post-launch, as [URL=http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts124/080601pad/]described[/URL] by Bill Harwood for CBS: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center suffered unusual damage during the shuttle Discovery's blastoff Saturday, NASA officials said Sunday. A photograph of the side of the pad directly behind the "flame trench" used to divert exhaust from the shuttle's solid-fuel boosters shows unidentified debris splashing into water behind the pad as Discovery climbed away. Pictures from a NASA source show buckled concrete and numerous concrete blocks or bricks, presumably from the flame trench, littering a road behind the pad.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> [/B][/QUOTE]
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