williams@kirk.DEC (John Williams 223-3402) (02/05/86)
How about Icarus? You know, the greek mythological man who tried to fly to the sun on wings of wax? It would be a pleasant change from all the previous gung ho hypola. It might also symbolize how difficult this thing really is in the midst of human failure. What is needed to prevent this from happening in the future are better nondestructive test methods. There exists an extra dimension with the shuttle in that the components are reused. They obviously need to be requalified before each mission. 100%. Those things go through quite a thermal and stress cycle. John.