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From forecasting shuttle re-entry to medical procedure outcomes, engineers are working fast to create computer models we can trust
Days before the space shuttle Columbia began its ill-fated return to Earth on Feb. 1, 2003, NASA engineers tried to evaluate the severity of damage sustained two weeks before, when a piece of foam had struck the shuttle during takeoff and damaged its thermal protection system. Engineering and computational researchers at The University of Texas… » Continue Reading