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Sorry if I missed other people’s suggestions up to this point, I didn’t have time to read everything.<br /><br />That makes since and probably is of concerns to the Shuttle people, that’s why they must use a particular type of foam insulation that allows for expansion and not something even lighter but more rigid such as arrogell. Voids do have trapped gas under pressure would seem to be a problem going from 1 ATM to the voids of space.<br /><br /><font color="orange">sometimes engineers can become so focused, so overloaded with detail and imagination, that the simple, basic and logical can become lost or unseen. I understand that time and weight are huge factors here,<font color="white"><br /><br />I agree, sometimes the focus can be in the wrong area, but sometimes an idea that has a thousand reasons why it would work is struck down because of one main un-fixable reason why it wouldn't work. <br /><br />If weight is such a big issue then why does the Space Shuttle Orbiter which is designed to carry up to 65,000 pound payload into orbit not fudge a little for the safety of the crew if the foam fix is going to add just 1000 pounds to the weight to obtain orbital speeds??? Sure it will take more fuel, money well spent. I'm sure this same thought must have been brought up many time before but I would like to here the logic for the reason for this....<br /><br />How many times did the Space Shuttle Obiter cargo bay ever go up fully loaded to its maximum weight???<br /><br /></font></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>