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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.
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Ha ha. That's not a quote of any NASA individual, that is a quote of an AP copy writer. That's like showing a copy of an AP newswire on the "quagmire" in Iraq.