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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Ha! So relatable for anybody who lived there:

"So much gypsum dust covered Columbia that Bolden recalled, "I flew it several flights later on my first flight, STS-61-C, and when we got on orbit, there was still gypsum coming out of everything! They thought they had cleaned it ... but it was just unreal what it had done!" Dust continued to be found in the spacecraft for the rest of its career."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-3