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The Day NASA's Tank Bought a Sailor a House: Storm, Lawsuit, Prize
The Day NASA's Tank Bought a Sailor a House: Storm, Lawsuit, Prize
A hurricane in November 1994 turned an ordinary tanker crew into rescuers of a Space Shuttle external fuel tank roughly fifteen stories tall and worth tens of millions of dollars - and that decision led to a court award larger than NASA’s initial offer. How did a tanker’s risk in Hurricane Gordon become a legal fight that ended with at least one sailor buying a house?
In this episode, we follow the November 1994 Atlantic incident involving a barge carrying an external Shuttle fuel tank, the nearby oil tanker Cherry Valley that…
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