[jlogajan]

I love all the so-called NASA experts originally saying the insulation was absolutely NOT the cause.

No one in NASA ever said such a thing. Prove your assertion by providing a direct quote.

And by the way, it was NASA who found data about the temperature spike. So your conspiracy theories are just plain nutty.

[friendly]

Sigh, don't you read anything, or follow the news? I resent having to waste my time on a Google search to enlighten the uninformed, but here is item number one of a vast number of Google references:

NASA: Foam still under consideration as cause of disaster


By The Associated Press
Friday, February 7, 2003

SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — A day after all but ruling it out as a leading cause, NASA said Thursday that investigators are still considering whether a piece of insulating foam that struck Columbia's wing during liftoff was enough to bring down the shuttle.
(excerpt)

[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".