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Sorry, this story is an urban legend at best. To begin with, it impossible to get every single NASA employee into a single room: the agency today has nearly 20,000 employees (plus an even larger number of contractors); the agency's workforce was even larger in the mid-1980s. Second, the first unpainted external tank was flown in 1982 on the third shuttle mission, STS- (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-3)
This story may be entertaining, but it is a work of fiction.
Commented Jun 27, 2010 on A crowdsourcing story (sort of) that helped launch Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1985. at Sparked - microvolunteering. By The Extraordinaries.
A crowdsourcing story (sort of) that helped launch Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1985.
"The space shuttle Atlantis was 600 pounds too heavy. In space flights, even the slightest pounds make a difference. The NASA engineers had to get rid of exactly 600 pounds or the mission would fail. The engineers could not figure out where to trim this weight. They had planned every last de...
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