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A fleck of paint left this crater on the surface of Space Shuttle Challenger's front window on STS-7.
On average, two Shuttle windows are replaced per mission due to damages caused by micro-meteoroid and orbital debris impacts.
November 12, 2012 6:15 PM PST
Photo by: NASA
| Caption by: James Martin
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