Windshield nick

Windshield nick

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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