[Howlin]

Tiles fall off on every single shuttle flight.

[TLBSHOW]

Well this time it burned didn't it. It should never of gone up there was enough warnings about it.

[PhiKapMom]

Tiles fall off on every single shuttle flight.

Have you kept track of how many times you have had to repeat that?

[SarahW]

Perhaps I should edit that to "one tile in a crucial spot damaged prior to re-entry", but the over arching point is the same - it's shocking to here Nasa say if they had seen damage, there is nothing that could be done.

Tile damage in critical areas is liekely to be catastrophic, the tiles are fragile. There is no failsafe for tile damage, no "plan "b".