NASA_Twix_JSC - 1/7/2005 4:18 PMThere have been instances where birds find the ET far too much of a good thing to go and peck, especially woodpeckers.
Ben - 1/7/2005 7:44 PMAnd STS-96 too...rolled back to repair it.
Zoomer30 - 12/5/2006 2:48 PMI hear the woodpeckers were mad becasue NASA had not paid for those Woody Woodpecker spots from the 60s yet, getting a little revenge I remember a story from the flight hiatus after 51L, a crew was working on the STA that had been sitting out for some time and found that a bird had made a BIG nest in a nook of one of the rear attach points.Makes you wonder if they should have TWO RSS on the pad, one to cover the shuttle and one to cover the backside of the tank and SRBs, could be like a clamshell. But knowing the way they were re-cycling stuff from Apollo, they probably used steel from the old Apollo Mobile Service Structure to make the RSS.