>>11895723Yeah, why not, South Padre is a day trip for me, and they should have more viewing areas by then. Especially if it's off-season for the beaches.
>>11895953The real issue was using that CFC-free foam crap, because it was so important to reduce CFCs by another .0001%, just ignore the foam breaking up, bro, it always does that now.
>>11895953>Never once fueled a tank on a stand and inspected the foam before.That's how we got Hubble. Nah, we don't need to test it, we know it'll work!
>>11896267>but no[w] she sits on top of a massive first stageExactly like Shuttle didn't. Goodbye o-ring problems. Also fuck solids. And those giant tanks don't have fucking foam on them either. None of those fragile snowflake tiles for the foam to break anyhow.