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Please see how our thread developed. I posted a thread on this issue on February 3rd, 2003.

It has taken NASA a half year to complete the process we suggested in the first 48 hours of the disaster.

Not to crow too much, but if you review the threads created contemporaneously to the events; I was the first to note that the crew was lost.

This entire disaster was clearly related to the TPS. The only issue was to find the cause of the TPS failure. Every engineer on the shuttle program knows what a TPS failure mode looks like and it is precisely the type of pattern seen on reentry of the ill-fated Columbia flight.

The new NASA engineers are too young to know why the design limits are in place. Many probably were not even born when the program was conceived.

This thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/835531/posts proves my point.

This was so cut and dried after the failure. It would have been one thing for NASA to state they weren't positive if it was the foam, they needed to confirm it. But they poo pooed the foam theory and even proposed meteorite hit to blur the issue.

They lied to the crew. They lied to us.

What bothers me more than anything else is that seven people died through negligence and it appears everyone may walk on this as if nothing more than a stubbed toe was incurred. It's disgusting. I'll NEVER trust NASA again. It's over for me.

NASA now stands for incompetence, complacency, obstruction, malfeasance, and I guess criminality. They informed the crew to get by an interview. At that point they didn't say we're checking his out. They said, there's no problem. This was a vicious lie.

They had to get by the interview and they didn't want the crew to act concerned, so they lied to them. Then they never went back and corrected the lie. Days later the crew was burnt to a crisp.

They told the public there was no chance to save the crew even if they knew right away. Then the Director of NASA said that wasn't true.

As you said, we've been adhead of them every step of the way. I state here and now, there is criminality involved here and I predict some people are going to see prison time over this.