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Part of NASA's Return to Flight safety research is being carried out by a highly modified F-15B aircraft.

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NASA Dryden Flight Research Center is using the "The Lifting Insulating Foam Trajectory," or LIFT

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experiment to document the behavior of a small piece of foam

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that breaks free from a specially made panel on the aircraft.

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The foam panel is built to mimic the Space Shuttle's fuel tank.

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Special high-speed digital video cameras installed on the F-15B are trained on the paths of free-flying foam pieces.

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Data collected from the LIFT experiments gives engineers a better understanding of how these small pieces of foam behave

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when they are shed from the Space Shuttle's External Tank during launch.

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Significant steps have already been taken to minimize the chance of foam shedding during launch with a LIFT from NASA's F-15B aircraft.

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