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    A Reentry Breakup Recorder (REBR) is a device that is designed to be placed aboard a spacecraft to record pertinent data when the spacecraft (intentionally)...
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    engineers suspected that the damage to Columbia was more serious. Before reentry, NASA managers limited the investigation, reasoning that the crew could...
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    the Space Shuttle mission STS-133 and the ISS Expedition 26. A Reentry Breakup Recorder was placed aboard the ATV before it undocked from the ISS on June...
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    Earth's atmosphere at around 03:09 UTC on 30 March. The reentry was logged by a Reentry Breakup Recorder, one of two carried to the station; the other was installed...
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    vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic, suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup during a test flight and crashed in the Mojave Desert near Cantil, California...
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    telescope pointed will eventually fail, which would result in its reentry and breakup in Earth's atmosphere. A "Soft Capture Docking Mechanism", based...
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    McRonald, Angus D. (April 15, 1988). Galileo: Uncontrolled STS Orbiter Reentry (PDF) (Report). NASA. JPL D-4896. Archived from the original (PDF) on November...
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    held a retrospective of her work, Yoko Ono: Objects, Films, marking Ono's reentry into the New York art world after a hiatus. At the suggestion of Ono's...
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    United States Space Shuttle Design flaw 7 Damaged TPS during launch, breakup during reentry 2005-12-19 Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 Miami Beach, Florida...
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    board was: Chairman George Abbey, Director of Flight Crew Operations, JSC Recorder Jay F. Honeycutt, Assistant to the Director of the JSC Pilot Panel John...
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    flight for the next five years. The year 1979 witnessed the spectacular reentry of Skylab over Australia. NASA had planned for a Shuttle mission to the...
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  • their checkout of the IZ system, one retrorocket in the spacer below the Reentry Vehicle (RV) fires, causing the RV to fall about 75 feet to the floor of...
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