Other Failures
Ship hauling NASA rockets
hits Kentucky's Eggner Ferry Bridge
A freighter, the Delta Mariner, carrying space rocket components from Decatur, Alabama,
to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for NASA, and the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,
got stuck along the Tennessee River after it hit a bridge on Thursday.
Cracks occurred about 7 to 10 inches inside the containment wall.
Root-cause analysis report by Performance Improvement International
identified seven factors contributing to delamination,
including tendon stresses and detensioning sequence.
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