[bootyist-monk]

Sorry... life is not a Bruce Willis movie. From all I've read, they were doomed from the start if the insulation caused the damage to the wing. Left with no alternatives, I'm sure they were hoping it would hold together. Unfortunately, fate was not on their side.

It seems to me that we have gotten so used to seeing the Space Shuttle fly that we think it can manuever like a plane. It can't. And launching one isn't just a matter of gas and go.

Hopefully, they'll learn what went wrong and be able to prevent it in the future.

[al_c]

Sorry... life is not a Bruce Willis movie.

Puh-leeze. I never suggested anything like what hollywierd threw at us in Armageddon.

Let's get back on topic.