[skinkinthegrass]

..the contractor (Lockheed Martin) changed to a government mandated "ozone friendly" compounds...The new compounds allowable were not as good as the old coumpounds....Thus the shuttle foam process was changed and more debris were deemed acceptable.

Thanks for the illumination. :))

[John W]

I wonder what the person or persons involved in making or forcing decisions such as this, where the ultimate "unintended consequence" is so catastrophic, think and or feel when death is the result.