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මට මතකයි මීට අවුරුදු ගානකට කලින් ශටල් එකක් ලෝන්ච් කරගන්න බැරුව හිටියා කොට්ටෝරුවෝ සර්ෆේස් එක ඩැමේජ් කරන හින්දා.
As I note in my latest book, 1995: The Year the Future Began, the year’s most improbable development in space flight came about five weeks earlier, on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
Woodpecker damage to NASA’s Discovery space shuttle
It was mating season for woodpeckers and the culprits, one or more Northern flickers, punched about 200 holes in the insulation protecting the external fuel tank of the shuttle Discovery.
As the Times observed, the $2 billion spacecraft — “built to withstand the rigors of orbital flight, from blastoff to fiery re-entry” — was driven back to its hangar “by a flock of birds with mating on their minds.”
The damage ranged was as minor as pecks and claw marks to holes four inches across, NASA reported.
One of the astronauts on that flight, Donald A. Thomas, recalled in an interview in 2013:
“A love-crazed male woodpecker grounded our flight for a month. He’d mistaken the 154-foot tall external fuel tank for a dead tree limb and proceeded to tunnel into the foam insulation in order to create a nest and attract a female.”
As I note in my latest book, 1995: The Year the Future Began, the year’s most improbable development in space flight came about five weeks earlier, on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
Woodpecker damage to NASA’s Discovery space shuttle
It was mating season for woodpeckers and the culprits, one or more Northern flickers, punched about 200 holes in the insulation protecting the external fuel tank of the shuttle Discovery.
As the Times observed, the $2 billion spacecraft — “built to withstand the rigors of orbital flight, from blastoff to fiery re-entry” — was driven back to its hangar “by a flock of birds with mating on their minds.”
The damage ranged was as minor as pecks and claw marks to holes four inches across, NASA reported.
One of the astronauts on that flight, Donald A. Thomas, recalled in an interview in 2013:
“A love-crazed male woodpecker grounded our flight for a month. He’d mistaken the 154-foot tall external fuel tank for a dead tree limb and proceeded to tunnel into the foam insulation in order to create a nest and attract a female.”
