Posted on 05/05/2003 8:44:38 AM PDT by 1smallVoice
It is likely going to be discovered that the foam used to protect portions of the shuttle during liftoff became displaced and damaged heat tiles during liftoff.
The sad thing about this is that many people knew about this problem and decided it was no big deal.
Another sad thing is that the type of foam or adhesive was changed to satisify evironmentalists and promoted by people in the Clinton adminstration. If this had not been changed or if the problem had been better evaluated these people would not have died. This was totally avoidable.
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