On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Ian Woollard wrote:
> e) the tiles are below the hydrogen tank, so catch falling debris (Buran
> didn't have this problem; this Shuttle problem may be partly/mostly a
> result of using hydrogen)
Buran had *exactly* this problem, it just had tougher tiles. It too had
a big "external tank" (the Energia core) in immediate proximity to its
belly, with LOX in the tank nose and LH2 in most of the body.
Henry Spencer
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