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As someone who likes to take advantage of the occational sucker bet, it was easy to become a foamista due to the long odds againt it being anything else.

There is a lot than can go wrong on a shuttle, and the chances something else would go wrong in the identical location with the identical results are a lot more astronomical than you can get to from low Earth orbit.

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There is a lot than can go wrong on a shuttle, and the chances something else would go wrong in the identical location with the identical results are a lot more astronomical than you can get to from low Earth orbit.

A couple of flights back when the foam sloughed off and wacked one of the SRB's so hard it dented the heck out of it some people (supposedly) tried to convince the skipper of that flight to call for grounding the system. Didn't work.

This is not Kris Kraft's NASA anymore. That's for sure.