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KSC-04pd1426
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Workers in the Orbiter Processing Facility check the placement of the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) chin panel on Discovery. . The chin panel is the smile-shaped section of RCC directly below the nose cap that provides a thermal barrier during re-entry. The nose cap, with chin panel, was removed from the vehicle in the summer of 2003 and returned to the vendor, where it underwent numerous forms of Non-Destructive Evaluation.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-04pd1426. NASA/KSC, 2004-07-07. Public domain. ID: KSC-04pd1426.
