Shuttle Doomed at Takeoff - Telltale Heat Spike Was Recorded After Debris Strike

ABC News ^ | April 18, 2003 | Lisa Stark and Gina Treadgold

[snopercod]

I think the Heinlein solipsism book may have been "Number of the Beast". It's hell getting old...

[brityank]

We used deionized, distilled water in the water-cooled CPUs I worked on. It tasted flat, and it didn't lather too well with soap, either; LOL.

[jpthomas]

See the latest USA Today article: NASA blames disaster on foam

[jpthomas]

I don't believe the NASA folks said the foam was absolutely not the cause of the shuttle disaster, but they did try to pour cold water on the possibility. In the latest USA Today article on the subject (NASA blames disaster on foam), they point out that Administrator Sean O'Keefe derided critics who had placed blame on the foam as "foamologists".

[jlogajan]

I don't believe the NASA folks said the foam was absolutely not the cause of the shuttle disaster, but they did try to pour cold water on the possibility.

They always said, in essense, not to jump to conclusions, to let the investigation get to the true cause. In fact they were right to say so. It wasn't just the knocking off or gouging of some tiles by the foam. It was a more complicated sequence of events, including possible age related weakening.