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NASA engineer describes the bricks that line the flame trench

Spaceflight Now Digital Video
Posted: June 17, 2008

Perry Becker, chief of NASA's structural systems branch at the Kennedy Space Center, describes to reporters the bricks that line the walls of the flame trench at launch pad 39A.

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